Warren G. Bennis Quotes
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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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.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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We are all terminal.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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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.
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It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.
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I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.
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If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
