Doldrums famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Humility is always proof of intelligence

  • I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

  • Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

  • Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  • Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

  • Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

  • Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

  • It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

  • You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

  • I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.