David McClelland Quotes

Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

David McClelland

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I'm always late.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Always
  • Late

• The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Free
  • You
  • Never

• When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • School
  • Abstract

• I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Science
  • Chinese

• What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Change
  • Homeless

• I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • World
  • Power

• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Red

• Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

  

  David McClelland
  • Power
  • American
  • Change