Warren Bennis Quotes
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
