Gerald Brooks Quotes
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
Gerald Brooks
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
Fat Joe
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Kate Morton
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
Daley Thompson
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
Umberto Eco
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I do circuit training - different workouts without stopping. I like having that stamina, where I've never been too tired to put on a match or go above and beyond.
Dolph Ziggler
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Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
Saul Alinsky
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
Hermann Hesse
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Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
Gerald Brooks