Daniel Finkelstein Quotes

Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Interesting
  • College
  • Brain

• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Artist
  • Media

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• I personally like to do independent films.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Like
  • Independent
  • Films

• When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Wife
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems like a natural way to hold the baby close to you. I also love the burp cloths, bibs, and swaddle blankets from Aden and Anais. Their stuff is organic and pure.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Way
  • Like
  • Baby

• We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Joy
  • Sea

• I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

  

  Lena Olin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Drinking

• It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Movie

• Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Culture
  • Desire

• I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.

  

  Jamie Cullum

• Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.

  

  Loni Love
  • Live
  • Real
  • Brother

• I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

  

  Bernard Hinault
  • Night
  • Baby

• When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • English
  • Tea

• Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

  

  George Clooney
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Dangerous

• There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Different
  • Funny

• It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • World
  • Long
  • Hair

• My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Weird
  • Cold

• Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
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