James C. Collins Quotes
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.James C. Collins
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
Tavi Gevinson -
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton -
You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
Gary Bettman -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden -
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Joanne Rowling -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Nadia Giosia -
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer -
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
Pamela Stephenson -
Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
Gary Hume -
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
Dana Hussein
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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
Andrea Riseborough -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton -
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
Dr. Dre -
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
Harlan Coben -
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
James C. Collins