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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I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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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.
