Patrick Lencioni Quotes

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

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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.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Parents
  • Path
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Understanding
  • Dangerous

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Myself
  • Year
  • Lazy

• 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.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Song
  • Internet
  • Honesty

• 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.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Opposite

• 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.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Journalism

• 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!'

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Nature
  • Think
  • You

• 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.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Heart
  • May

• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • Strong
  • Excellence

• I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Story

• We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Mind
  • Personality
  • Consciousness

• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Risk
  • Values
  • Celebrate

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence