Richard N. Haass Quotes

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Richard N. Haass

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• 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
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Me
  • Prayer

• When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Never
  • Down
  • Charity

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Die

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Smile

• I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.

  

  Aretha Franklin

• More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • America
  • Political
  • Diversity

• There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

  

  James Sanborn
  • People
  • History
  • Moments

• The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.

  

  Bill Flores
  • House
  • Texas

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Wise

• I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Good
  • Book
  • Together

• It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.

  

  David Crystal
  • Technology

• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Athlete

• In addition to the problem of public confidence, hiring a relative also causes problems within the government organization. It can undermine the morale of government officials. It can cause confusion about what the lines of authority are; in other words, the relative may have a particular title, but many may perceive the relative's role as even more important than the title would suggest. It may be very difficult to say no to the president's son-in-law.

  

  Kathleen Clark
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Government

• You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Leadership
  • Priorities
  • Effectiveness