John P. Kotter Quotes
In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
