Marvin Bower Quotes
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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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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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I am a just man.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
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Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
