Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Barbara Kruger
- Good
- Work
- Mind
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- People
- Good
- American
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Fran Lebowitz
- People
- Hope
- Moral
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

Samuel J. Palmisano
- People
- Winning
- Exercise
I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

Fiona Apple
- Up
- Work
- Myself
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

Valerie Plame
- People
- True
- Wish