Marcus Buckingham Quotes
What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.
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What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.
