Ray Allen Quotes
My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
Quotes to Explore
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
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All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.
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It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.
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We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.
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At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.
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My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
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Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
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I do believe in teamwork, and I think it's very important, especially for a woman, because if you don't have a good team, then you cannot step out if you need to.
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If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.
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It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.
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In all our businesses, we are out to build local capability in four basic aspects - product line, manufacturing and supply chain, the service team, and the financing and investment capability.
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I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
