John C. Maxwell Quotes

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Man
  • Crazy
  • Thoughtful

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Time
  • Hospital

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles:'Homme, vers toi je pousse, ô cher déshérité,Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles.'

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Stage
  • Naked

• I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Great
  • Power
  • Mother

• The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Self

• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Vision