Warren Bennis Quotes
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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If the national park idea is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
