"No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility."

-- Daryl Gates

#Responsibility Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes

“I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?”
“If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.”

Source : Source: www.notcoming.com
“What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'”
“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”
“Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.”
“Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.”

Source : "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“By walking, I found out where I was going.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.110, McClelland & Stewart

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