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 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

• 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

• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Power

• My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Mood
  • Fitness

• There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Great
  • Intelligent
  • Computers

• I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Song

• The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Book
  • War
  • Moral

• When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Believe

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

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
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