Douglas Conant Quotes

Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

Douglas Conant

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Straightforward

• The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Way
  • Class

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• A lot of people want to discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Mistake

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  

  David Finckel
  • People
  • Universe
  • Feelings

• Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Interesting
  • Circus
  • Weddings

• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Hope
  • Actors

• Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People