Charles Garfield Quotes
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
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Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.
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Even for people who live in the country, there is a trepidation now about going outside to play. But it never occurred to us to be fearful when we were young.
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The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
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Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
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I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.
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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
