Alan Briskin Quotes

Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.

Alan Briskin

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Thought

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  

  Dana Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Winning

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Philosophical

• 'I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.''You always have,' Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Promise

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People

• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Important

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People

• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • German

• Some of the closest friends you make in TV are the producers who travel on field assignments with you - you're together 24/7.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Travel

• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mankind
  • Desires
  • Possessions

• Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.

  

  Alan Briskin
  • Wisdom
  • Conversations
  • Silences