Phil Bredesen (Philip Norman Bredesen Jr) Quotes

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

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• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Think
  • Me
  • Audience

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Management

• The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Same

• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Think
  • Career
  • Hate

• Everything is on the table. We didn't have the production we wanted late in the year. But we did make a big jump. It's a matter of evaluating everything and seeing the ways that we can help ourselves get more production. It's a little bit strategy, and it's certainly personnel.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Help
  • Jump
  • Strategy

• I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Strategy

• It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Good
  • Deal

• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • State
  • Ground
  • Tennessee

• Blending kids, ex-spouses, money and investment styles -- each one of them requires its own strategy.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Strategy

• I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Mind
  • Leadership
  • State

• Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • Target
  • Reach It

• I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • State
  • Resources
  • Benefit

• I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Life
  • Conflict
  • Sadness

• Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Friends
  • Tree

• My body had taken on a life of its own, in which it wept while I remained an embarrassed parent, unable to control its excesses.

  

  Amanda Craig
  • Life
  • Control
  • Body

• There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

  

  Karen MacNeil
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Dollars

• [Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Song
  • Play
  • Trumpets

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Done
  • Serious
  • Study

• Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

  

  Phil Bredesen
  • State
  • Strategy
  • Target