James Collins Quotes

So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Yoga
  • Speech
  • Working Hard

• I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Professional
  • Celebrity

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Food
  • Universe

• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Never
  • China
  • Puzzle

• I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • School
  • Education
  • Smart

• I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Think
  • Values

• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Humanity
  • Moment
  • Ship

• I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Religious

• Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatusuna dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.

  

  Ausonius

• I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Future

• Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Professional

• At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Amazing

• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

  

  Benjamin Haydon
  • Done

• I just need your talking next to me when I wake up, talking next to me when I wake up next to you, when I’m hungover too. ‘Cause you’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely. You’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely for you, when I’m lonely for you…

  

  Dean Lewis
  • Lonely
  • Talking
  • Next

• I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• If Abu Mazen wins, I'm afraid there will be payback time. Lots of people will expect to see him deliver different things on different fronts to different addresses.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Abu Mazen

• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Medicine
  • Normal
  • Painful

• I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

  

  Steve King
  • Conscience
  • Conservative
  • Consensus

• So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.

  

  James Collins