Max de Pree Quotes

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Project
  • Budget
  • Box

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Far

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • You
  • Win
  • Matter

• Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • World

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Up
  • Blow

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

  

  Max de Pree
  • Learning
  • Leadership