Confucius Quotes

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Story

• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Change
  • inspirational

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • History
  • Mask

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• I don't think limits.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Limits

• We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Want
  • Box

• Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Chance
  • Learn
  • Give

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Always
  • Alive
  • Radio

• I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Kind

• I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Away
  • Carried

• For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Women
  • She

• I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

  

  Edward Lampert
  • Why
  • Together
  • Goals

• Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Great
  • Business
  • Justice

• I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Different
  • Goals
  • Achievable

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  

  Confucius
  • Goals
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