"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."

-- John Engler

#Agendas Quotes #Importance Quotes

“Once I committed to acting, this has been it.”

Source : "Ernie Hudson talks Oz and losing out on the Ghostbusters cartoon". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2012.
“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”
“An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme BayÂ â€” Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern legÂ â€” and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.”
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”

Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
“The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.”
“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!”
“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisationâ€™s problems, and then change how they act.”

Source : "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.
“As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.”

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