Alfred Sheinwold Quotes

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

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• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • New

• I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Successful
  • Regret
  • More

• I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Why
  • Night

• You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • High
  • Free
  • Action

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Crazy

• Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Up
  • Real
  • Strong

• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Change
  • Couple
  • Feel

• I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Reality

• The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Performances
  • Presence
  • Outcomes

• The Nehruvian dream [the ending of poverty and ignorance and inequality of opportunity.] today has become a pungent necessity, inescapable necessity. In 1947, one could say that it was a dream, it was Gandhi's dream also. But now it has become an inescapable necessity for us to translate that dream into practice. And I think that dream cannot be abandoned. We have to pursue it and pursue it in realistic terms. I see that India can do it. And India must do it.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Dream
  • Ending
  • Inequality

• Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Problems

• A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Book
  • Readers
  • Opponents

• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Opponents
  • Viewpoint

• Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Price

• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

  

  Bernard Lietaer
  • Guy
  • Stupid
  • Matter

• It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

  

  Alfred Sheinwold
  • Opponents
  • Belong
  • Tricks