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Colin Powell Quotes

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: american
Birth: April 5, 1937

Topics

Best Team Management Mission Chase

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

Work Quality People Control Think

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Crazy Think You Seeing Dark Down

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Father Bike Me Basketball Year Used

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Age Year Play Group Old Driven

I trained myself to perform on the field.

Myself Field Perform Trained

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Media Like Sounds Convention

The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole.

Life Vision Unity World Living Try

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Mother School Me Giving Different

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

Think Sometimes Little Roll Populist

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Work Teen Never Beat Just Like

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Value Measure Wrong Place Nice Want

I'm obsessed with the thought of making things happen... Ultimately, I do it because I'm scared. I don't ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.

Thought Things Happen Want Poor

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