Warren Bennis Quotes
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.
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You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.
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If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
