Peter Drucker Quotes
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.
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Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
