George Bradt Quotes
A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
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Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.
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A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal.
