Douglas Conant Quotes

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

Douglas Conant

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TimeCoffeeJobPeopleEasyYou

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

Joe Torre

StressControlLookingAnxietyYou

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

Andre Ward

WorkSurvivalYouMouthEarlyQuit

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Maya Angelou

HistoryTimeLongHumanBecause

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Maurice Sendak

LoveMusicGreatOperaSetDesigner

I take things very seriously.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

SeriouslyThingsTakeVery

By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.

Tom Cotton

TimeWarWinningRoadLateElection

I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

Monica Lewinsky

GreatKindSomethingKnown

U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

Luis Gutierrez

ImmigrationJust BecauseCivil Rights

Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.

Louis Theroux

BlueCome And GoGoWillBecome

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

ManJudgeFriendsYouWellShall

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

Dick Van Patten

DogFoodThinkWillWayRoof

Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy.

Bob Beckel

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