Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

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• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Community
  • Back

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

  

  Warren G
  • Family
  • Business
  • Gay

• My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Balance
  • Philosophy

• I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • You
  • First
  • Elected

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Opinion

• What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Perception

• Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

• Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Different
  • Color
  • Prince

• I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Training

• Money means better meals at better places.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Money

• Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Style
  • Dirty

• Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

  

  Alex Berenson

• My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Long
  • Party

• As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Character

• I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Mom
  • Things
  • Anymore

• You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Soul
  • Humanity
  • Poetry

• Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
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