Marvin Bower Quotes
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.
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I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
