John C. Maxwell Quotes

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

John C. Maxwell

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• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

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• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

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• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
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• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

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• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

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• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

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• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

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• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
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• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
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• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

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• For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'

  

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• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

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• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

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• It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
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  • Stop

• There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

  

  George Eliot
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• The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

  

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• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  

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• Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

  

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• Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Failure