Melanne Verveer Quotes

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

Melanne Verveer

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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

• 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 believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Believe
  • Leadership

• I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • Leadership

• If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • People
  • Action
  • Leadership

• And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Money
  • Done
  • Free

• The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.

  

  E.G. Daily
  • Fun
  • Environment

• He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

  

  Kate Ross
  • People
  • Business
  • Going

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

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Leadership
  • Difference
  • Making