Adena Friedman Quotes

If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

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• Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • Need
  • Customers

• I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Proud
  • Deep
  • Roots

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Journalism
  • Primitive
  • Incredibly

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Try
  • Week
  • Train

• I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  

  Kate Burton
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• 'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Always
  • Film
  • Special

• Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Understand

• Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • Moving

• My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Comedy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Idea
  • First
  • No Idea

• Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• 'Gansey's partying with his mother,' Ronan said. He smelled like beer. 'And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mother
  • Beer

• The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium.

  

  Wendell Berry

• I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Car
  • Texas

• In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

  

  John David Washington
  • Trust
  • Football
  • Failure

• We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Band
  • Inspiration

• When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Value
  • Body
  • Judging

• I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Drive
  • Faster
  • Especially

• If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

  

  Adena Friedman