Patrick Lencioni Quotes
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
