Carne Ross Quotes
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
Quotes to Explore
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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Woe and death to all who resist my will!
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.
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[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
