Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
