Douglas Conant Quotes

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  

  Tana French
  • Find
  • Situation
  • Author

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Job
  • Water

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

  

  Asa Butterfield

• Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • Fly