Warren Bennis Quotes
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
