Warren Bennis Quotes
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
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The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
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For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
