Lawrence Durrell Quotes
here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel - one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. - he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure. (IV)
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
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We saw him throw it, we saw him run with it, we saw him catch it, and certainly those are roles we want to expand. Our goal would be, with a guy like this, to try and get his hands on the ball.
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Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
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here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel - one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. - he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure. (IV)
