Patrick Lencioni Quotes
Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.
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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.
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I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
