John C. Maxwell Quotes
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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I'll try anything once.
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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.
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I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
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There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them.
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As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
