Brian Solis Quotes

How do you become a thought leader? It starts with *being* a thought leader and then connecting the dots back to you.

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• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Batman

• My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Family
  • Weird

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Body

• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Money
  • Age
  • Society

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I'm a model, but I love to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Model
  • Eat

• In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Love
  • Memories
  • Sense

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Work
  • Accomplish
  • Interact

• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Most
  • Mother`s
  • Philosophers

• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Political

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • United States
  • Run

• How do you become a thought leader? It starts with *being* a thought leader and then connecting the dots back to you.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Leader