Ettore Messina Quotes

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

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• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Sick

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Art
  • Uncomfortable

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • People
  • You
  • Judge

• I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

  

  K. Flay
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  • Weird

• My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Dream
  • Comedy

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• People think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.

  

  Cecil Dawkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.

  

  David Galenson
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• I bring the spirit of French conquest.

  

  Emmanuel Macron

• I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• There's those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those players, and I know how much of an effect they had on me. Knowing that, I feel like I'm in a position where I can really help be a positive influence in girls' lives.

  

  Alex Morgan
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• Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

  

  Ettore Messina
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