Max de Pree Quotes
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Quotes to Explore
-
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
-
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
-
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
-
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
-
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
-
I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
-
'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
-
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
-
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
-
I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
-
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
-
The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
-
I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
-
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
-
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
-
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
-
J. J. Abrams is amazing.
-
I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
-
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
-
I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.
-
In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality.
-
I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
-
The endorsement game has been very good to me.
-
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
