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“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”
Source : "My relationship with the chairman will be like that of any chief executive" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2003.
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“There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.”
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“I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.”
Source : Source: deadline.com
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“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.”
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“In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.”
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“Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.”
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“Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.”
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“There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.”
Source : Gregory Berns (2013). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.88, Harvard Business Press