Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
