Robert Pozen Quotes
The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.
Quotes to Explore
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
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Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.
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I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
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The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.
