Margaret Heffernan Quotes

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Margaret Heffernan

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• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Style
  • Jazz
  • Him

• The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Consciousness
  • Product

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Money
  • Running

• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • True
  • Numbers
  • Comfortable

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Writer

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Great
  • Alone

• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• I have no guitar technique.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Guitar
  • Technique

• I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Struggle
  • Look
  • Perseverance

• Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Alone

• Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Important
  • American
  • High

• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Day
  • Leadership

• As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Why
  • Leadership

• Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Leadership