Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
Abhishek Bachchan -
A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
J. J. Watt
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
Kate McKinnon -
Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
Octavia Spencer
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
Zhang Yimou -
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Daisaku Ikeda -
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
Felix Frankfurter -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.
Lynn Coady -
You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
Billy Joel -
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie -
I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
Daniel Breaker -
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.
Adam Fuss -
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
Napoleon Bonaparte