Alexander Kotov Quotes

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Alexander Kotov

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• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • God
  • Future

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• Athletics is in my blood.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Blood
  • Athletics

• I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Father

• I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Matter

• I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.

  

  Elias Canetti

• I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • Time

• We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Character
  • High
  • Political

• In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Rock
  • Brain
  • Sports

• We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Brain

• When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Different
  • Fun

• I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Band

• At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Growth
  • Company
  • Marketing

• Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

  

  Alexander Kotov
  • Growth
  • Weaknesses
  • Conclusions