Edward Hallowell Quotes
Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.
Quotes to Explore
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I love my sleep.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
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I was madder than a quadriplegic with a stag full of scratch off tickets, I'll tell you what.
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Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
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Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
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‘…you read mostly menus and the moles on whores’ bellies….’
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
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I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
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Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
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Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.
