Walter Wriston Quotes
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.
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To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
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I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
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I have remarked, in the course of such air travel as I have done, that the airmen of all nations have a common resemblance to each other and that the patriotic virus in their blood is largely corrected by a wider professionalism.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
