David McClelland Quotes

One study suggests that the most effective way to increase an Achievement may be to try simply and directly to alter the nature of an individual’s fantasies

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Death
  • Bible

• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Science
  • Political

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Silence
  • Sound
  • Tools

• If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Day

• I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Today
  • Difference

• If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • World
  • Music
  • Dance

• Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Struggle
  • Creativity
  • Views

• If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Why
  • Power
  • Nature

• One study suggests that the most effective way to increase an Achievement may be to try simply and directly to alter the nature of an individual’s fantasies

  

  David McClelland
  • Nature
  • Increase
  • Alter