Edward Lampert Quotes

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

Edward Lampert

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Change
  • Thought

• I push myself to the limit.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Push

• For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Philosophical

• I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

  

  Jack Vance

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Trying

• In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Mind
  • Team
  • Door

• I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Work
  • Kids

• But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

  Chaka Fattah
  • War

• I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • World

• Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Women
  • High
  • Promise

• Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Children
  • Film
  • Husband

• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Revolution
  • Direction
  • Opposite

• I only turn 16 once, so it's going to be an awesome party with my favorite rides, hanging out with friends, fireworks and more.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Awesome

• You guys made the right decision. We're going to enjoy another orbit.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Decision
  • Enjoy
  • Orbit

• If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

  

  Edward Lampert