Douglas Conant Quotes

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Douglas Conant

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LeaderPeopleFlyPerformanceYou

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

PassionThroughSeenCaughtWhoHe

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

Jenova Chen

WorkArtPeopleThinkSomeoneWhy

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

Andrew Eldritch

GameRulesNobodyCitizenVocabulary

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

John Hodgman

HumorCaringPeopleMeTalkingKnow

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

Michael Hayden

ViewPowerfulSecretsTransparency

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

John Perry Barlow

ThinkIntellectualEconomyProperty

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark

HimCommunistWhoPitcherHitAny

I learned not to care what other people think.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleThinkCareOtherLearned

I have a good relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, and we'll have good relationship in the future, too.

Luka Modric

GoodFutureRelationshipToo

I'm not a competitive person.

Chris Elliott

PersonCompetitiveCompetitive Person

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

Chieh Huang

EducationMeLadderWayUpMake

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

Claire Denis

EyeThinkCameraAudienceFilmYour

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