Gary Hamel Quotes
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
