Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman Quotes

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Hatred

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• It's a very good historical book about history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Book
  • History

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• It's brutal out on the football field.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Field
  • Brutal

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Eye

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Environment
  • Adaptation

• My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Different
  • Girl

• I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Homosexual
  • Chastity
  • Vows

• I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Think
  • Being

• Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • She
  • Wife
  • New

• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Together

• I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

  

  Lisa McMann
  • Interesting
  • Growth
  • Drama

• Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could put Jesus' face on the cover that it would do really well on the newsstands. So every year, they would put Jesus' face on the newsstand. There was a formula there.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Jesus

• What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Heart
  • Business

• Looking to the fourth quarter of 1999, ... we are confident of the continued revenue growth of our business consistent with year-to-date results and the current analyst consensus is consistent with our view of the full-year earnings of the company.

  

  George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
  • Business
  • Confident
  • Consistent

• Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

  

  Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman
  • Business