Melanne Verveer Quotes

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Melanne Verveer

• Leadership
• Difference
• Making
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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Difference

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Difference

• Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Health
  • Quality

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Leadership
  • Learned
  • Really

• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Society
  • Political

• Idealist: a cynic in the making.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Making
  • Idealist
  • Cynic

• Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Leadership

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • People
  • Funny
  • Religious

• Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Together
  • Vision

• Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Church
  • Gay

• As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Nature
  • Strong
  • Party

• Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

  

  David Cameron
  • America
  • Moral
  • Leadership

• I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.

  

  Keith Kellogg
  • Career
  • Military
  • Path

• The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

  

  Celine Dion
  • Hair
  • Thing
  • Stay

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Hand
  • Cutting
  • Down

• Gays and lesbians should be Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.

  

  Ali al-Sistani
  • Killing
  • Gays

• For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Leadership
  • Difference
  • Making