Michel Gondry Quotes

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

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• Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Will
  • Results
  • Uncertainty

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Results

• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Good
  • Results
  • Got

• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Think
  • Working
  • Thrive

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Work
  • Results

• Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Attention
  • Understanding
  • Idea

• I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Values
  • Fame

• We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Results
  • Strategy
  • Maintain

• Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Results
  • Get
  • Myth

• You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Results
  • Actions

• It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Results

• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Results
  • Means
  • Violent

• Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • War
  • Lying

• Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Thinking
  • Individual
  • Impulse

• My dad demanded results. I wasn't expected just to be a student, I was supposed to get straight A's. My dad didn't want me just to play sports, he pushed me to win state championships in high school and national championships.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Sports
  • Results
  • Straight

• When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Game
  • Person
  • Ball

• People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Punishment

• I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.

  

  Virginia Williams
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Child

• I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Results
  • Thrive