Harold S. Geneen Quotes
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
