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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I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.
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While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.
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Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.
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The entrepreneurial role appears to call for decision-making under uncertainty
