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John F. Kelly Quotes

We are at war and, like it or not, that is a fact. It is not Bush's war, and it is not Obama's war. It is our war, and we can't run away from it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1950

Topics

War Run Away Like Fact Our

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Life Moving Life Is A Target Group

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

Bird Money Job Training College Big

'Piper's Pit' was totally unscripted - everything just happened - thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

Innovation Accomplish Everything Just

It's important to stay current and fresh.

Important Fresh Stay Current

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

Success Leader Team Building Strong

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.

Leadership Success Best Team Shine

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

Fear Time Death Start Now Limit

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

People Stupid Feel You Play Meet

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

Live Children Me Important Want Get

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

Story Weird Laugh Help Strange Air

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Tradition You Become Adult Ancestry

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

Mother Great Pain Growing Up Growing

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