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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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 am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.
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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.
