Gay Hendricks Quotes

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

Gay Hendricks

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Think
  • Want
  • Place

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Single
  • Democracy
  • Voice

• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Music
  • Art
  • Potential

• I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Say
  • Looking
  • Skin

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • Day
  • Everyday

• There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Couple

• Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Idea

• I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

  

  Christopher Moore

• What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Want
  • Silence

• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Mind
  • Want

• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • What You Want

• Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

  

  Gay Hendricks
  • Want
  • Communication
  • Conversation