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.

Carne Ross

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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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Strength

• I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Money
  • Pride

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• 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.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Year
  • Grow

• I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

  

  OMI
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Looking

• I only seem to date younger women.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Women
  • Only
  • Date

• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Teach
  • Exhausted

• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Human Beings
  • Terrorist
  • Liars

• What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Money
  • Struggle

• Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

  

  Darren Star
  • Work
  • Kitchen

• One good man,Oh ain’t much, honey ain’t much,It’s only everything...

  

  Janis Joplin
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Carne Ross
  • Power
  • Control
  • Learning