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James MacGregor Burns Quotes

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1918 - July 15, 2014

Topics

Leadership Politics Ethics Management

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Time Me Chance Feel Learn New

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

Music Great Day Know Jazz Over

We need to stop arguing about things that don't help Argentina grow.

Grow Help Stop Need Arguing Things

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Life Pain Life Is Short Short Laugh

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.

College Honor Feel Humanity You

In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Man Thoughts Body Early Chemistry

I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth.

Woman Black Mouth Guess

Guantanamo Bay is a facility that I think should be utilized by the United States for detainees, say, out of Syria.

Think Say Out United United States

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Me Stupid Bond Doing Ownership You

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

Light Eye Mysterious Always Open

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Children Hero Long Nothing Touch

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Amazing Collaboration Possibilities

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