Patrick Lencioni Quotes
Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I'm very self-critical.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.
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I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.
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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
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I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
