Charles Garfield Quotes

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

Charles Garfield

• Ability
• Determination
• Manage
• Performers
• Missions
• Fulfilling

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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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Man
  • Day
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Road
  • First

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Up
  • Character

• Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

  

  David Petraeus

• Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

  

  Palmer Cox
  • Forever
  • Ocean
  • Frozen

• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Attention
  • Goods

• I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Connection
  • Missions
  • Hubble

• When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

  

  Michael Hintze
  • Ability
  • Seeking
  • Incredibly

• I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika

• It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Age

• The absence of disease is not health.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Health
  • Disease
  • Absence

• Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Ability
  • Determination
  • Manage