Peter Levine Quotes
The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I get that people are worried about their mortgages and bills that have to be paid. They don't have time to worry about the Syrian refugees, and I get that. The thing about it is, when it gets worse and worse and worse and down the line, it's no longer restricted to these places.
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.
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I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
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The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.
