Susan L. Taylor Quotes
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
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We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
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It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.
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I don't like that scaring feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.
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Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
