David McClelland Quotes
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
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Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
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The entrepreneurial role appears to call for decision-making under uncertainty
