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 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

• It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Religious

• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  

  Max Euwe
  • Game
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Time
  • Small

• As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

  

  Daniel Morgan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Power
  • Black

• There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Great
  • Death
  • Church

• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sacrifice
  • Blood
  • Relative

• 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