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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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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Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn't like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don't knock me down as much as they used to.
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Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?
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'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.
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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.