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Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Hard Work

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Period
  • Exercise

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Leadership

• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Problems

• I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Fighting
  • Beach
  • Routine

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Learn

• Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Successful
  • Dedication

• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Medicine

• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Useless

• So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• If a close ally of Iran like Syria went to Iran and said, 'This peace is in our interest,' what do you think would they do? I can tell you they have never opposed any of our peace moves since 1991.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Think
  • You
  • Peace

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Imagination

• A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mind
  • Moments

• What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Life
  • Die
  • Ball

• You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

  

  John John Florence
  • Confidence

• I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Situation
  • Caught Up
  • Zoom

• O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Opinion
  • Poetry

• Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Moral
  • Motive
  • Nerves

• Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

  

  John Gerzema