Tom Ridge Quotes
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.Tom Ridge
Quotes to Explore
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
Sakshi Tanwar -
No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. Edwards Deming -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
Earl Browder
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas -
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
Carla Gugino -
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
Barbara Corcoran -
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall -
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
Mahesh Babu -
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card -
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
Patrick McHenry -
I always write the pieces I want to write.
Harrison Birtwistle -
In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
Warren Farrell
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My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'
Jerry Zucker -
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
Bear Grylls -
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
Oscar Wilde -
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank -
When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.
Chadwick Boseman -
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
Tom Ridge