Margaret Heffernan Quotes
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.Margaret Heffernan
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
Kacey Musgraves -
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell -
Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
Edgar Wright -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I eat a lot of chocolate.
Manolo Blahnik
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
Vince Gill -
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed -
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
Daisy Fuentes -
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco -
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
Warren Spector -
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
Jack Dee -
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
Abhishek Bachchan -
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck -
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I love girl power.
Pam Bondi
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When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them.
Warren Farrell -
The user is the content of any situation, whether its driving a car, or wearing clothes or watching a show. The user is content.
Marshall McLuhan -
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
Ian Holm -
Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
Warren Farrell -
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle -
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Margaret Heffernan