Gary Hamel Quotes
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
Quotes to Explore
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.
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There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
