James C. Collins Quotes

It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.

James C. Collins

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Never
  • Extraordinary

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Help
  • Blessed

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Like
  • Star

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Funny
  • Dance

• We can't defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • People
  • Country
  • Security

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

  

  John Jewel
  • Life
  • God
  • Knowledge

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Trying
  • Small

• It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.

  

  James C. Collins
  • People