Gary Hamel Quotes

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

Gary Hamel

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• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Age
  • Three
  • Statistics

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Person
  • Intense

• Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Great

• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Walking
  • Shadow
  • Disappointment

• My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it.

  

  Al Roker
  • Mother
  • Path

• We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

  

  James Lassiter
  • People
  • World

• The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • History

• I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Doubt

• I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Long
  • Mother

• There's this whole underground world of amateur television production.

  

  Fred Willard
  • World

• I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Music

• There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.

  

  Kelly Evans

• It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene.

  

  Danny DeVito

• I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Great
  • Music
  • Black

• There's no place that's so dark, that I can't find you Anywhere that you are, if you need proof Take a look at these scars, and know I love you

  

  Jordan Feliz
  • Love
  • Place
  • For Her

• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Place
  • Resilience

• Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey.

  

  Willemijn Verkaik
  • Journey
  • Enjoy
  • Amount

• It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • Humanity
  • Resilience

• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Resilience