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 have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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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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If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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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.
