Patrick Lencioni Quotes

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• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• Truth is the best defense.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Truth Is

• Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Law
  • Contract
  • Ethereum

• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Forget

• I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Lunch

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Real
  • Think
  • Words

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Down

• Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Suffering
  • Hatred
  • Misery

• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Dream
  • Kitchen
  • Custom-made

• You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Children
  • Guess

• The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Children
  • Father
  • Eyes

• My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • First
  • Terrible

• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Silence
  • Mystery

• The one thing I always do is I always brush my teeth before I play. I don't know why.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Play
  • Teeth
  • Brushes

• Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Terrible
  • Meetings