Marcus Buckingham Quotes
Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.Marcus Buckingham
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
Quincy Jones -
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley -
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
Gavin O'Connor -
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey -
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
Malala Yousafzai -
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Gary Ross -
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Lady Gaga -
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
Kage Baker -
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
Ingmar Bergman -
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
Viggo Mortensen -
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
Garret Dillahunt -
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
Daniel Bryan
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If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
Jamie Moyer -
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
Kurt Sutter -
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
Jessica Lange -
We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.
Des Browne -
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
John Burns -
Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
Marcus Buckingham