John P. Kotter Quotes
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.
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They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
