Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
