Bob Burg Quotes

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

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• Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Leaders

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Say

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Happy
  • Brother
  • Dating

• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Girl
  • Marriage
  • Brother

• I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Long
  • Family
  • Years

• I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Freedom

• Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Greatest
  • Crowded

• Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Great
  • Company
  • Blessing

• So many people have reached out in wonderful ways. New York has been wonderful.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • People
  • Wonderful
  • Reached

• Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Death

• Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

  

  Kevin Peter Hall
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Ifs

• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Fame
  • Direction
  • Splendors

• A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Art
  • Voice
  • Misery

• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • High School

• I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I've got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there's a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now. Arrived, Because, Belief, Carry, Considering, Enjoying, Feel, Film, Got, I Can, I Feel, Kind, Love, Many, Me, Noticing, Now, People, Performance, Shoulders, Since, Started

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Just
  • Because
  • Enjoying

• The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

  

  Simon Greenleaf
  • Perfection
  • Worship
  • Attribute

• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Thought
  • Forgiving
  • Christmas time

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Push
  • Rope
  • Influencers