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Michael Finkel Quotes

Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Mistakes Think Tests Get I Think

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Work Dreams People Ideas Reach

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Negotiation You Policy Something Use

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

Love Time World Upside Down Laugh

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

Bond Nothing Prove Magical Junk

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Family Day Night Summer Never First

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

Me Think Mood Right Just Worse

As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.

Enough Media Way Equity Destroy CEO

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

Opportunity Remember First Up Scared

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

Perspective Creative Ideas Song Part

My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.

Molly Crabapple

Life People Fast I Can Go Build

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster

Knowledge Man Religion Mind Blessed

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Great Man Behind Created Concept

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