Upton Sinclair Quotes
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
Carl Honore
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren Bennis
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
Fede Alvarez
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.
Chuck Liddell
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
David Deida
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What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
Upton Sinclair