Andy Dunn Quotes

The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

Andy Dunn

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• 'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Giving

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Style
  • Jazz
  • Him

• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Trust

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Writer

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Friendship

• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Want
  • Act
  • Wednesday

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • American
  • Progress

• The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Leadership
  • Psychology