Eric Shinseki Quotes
More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
Quotes to Explore
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.
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To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.
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People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.
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Tragedy makes you grow up.
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Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.
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I believe religion is man-made.
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When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
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Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.
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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.
