General quotes
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been — and will always be — our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people — black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants — to make up America.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data', has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career — how many tickets are sold.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.
