Patrick Lencioni Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
