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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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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Fashion goes round in circles.
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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.
