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.Walter Wriston
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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.
Kate Winslet -
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Dalai Lama -
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
Rachel Kushner -
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
Victor Cruz -
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.
Zachary Knighton -
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
Nancy Willard
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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?'
Dani Shapiro -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Tali Lennox -
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.
Samira Wiley -
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer -
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.
Nancy Pickard
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale -
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
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.
Kapil Sharma -
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.
Washed Out -
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
Taylor Swift -
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!
Garth Brooks
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
Ramez Naam -
When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
Patrick Lencioni -
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
A. J. Liebling -
Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Colin Mochrie -
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Walter Wriston