Douglas Conant Quotes

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

Douglas Conant

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TrustExcellenceJobPeopleEnergy

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

John Glover

SchoolPeopleMeHigh SchoolThought

I cook every day.

Jennie Garth

DayEvery DayCookEvery

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

Andrew Lau

ChangeDayMeetingsYouEvery Day

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Roland Joffe

PoliticsPhilosophyKnowUpAware

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Rupert Sheldrake

HomeKnowComing HomeDogsComing

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.

Lucien Smith

New YorkBornNewI Was BornRaised

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Lisa Scottoline

CharacterSupportHelpYouWrite

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

Johnny Vegas

ConfidenceChildrenI AmCareHands

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Dirk Benedict

CareerStageUpStarBeingFilm

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

Derek Walcott

LifeExperienceFeelingHillBeing

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

Priyanka Chopra

OpportunityMeAmericaPlanCareer

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Peter Kreeft

GodFreeChooseMiraclesFree Will

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