Warren Bennis Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.
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The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
