Margaret Heffernan Quotes

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Margaret Heffernan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LeadershipGoalsMyselfAmbition

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

Matthew Heineman

PeopleThinkThinkingPoliticalWant

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

LovePeopleMeIdeasFirstI Love

It's time for Washington to get out of the way and quit killing American jobs.

Stephen Fincher

TimeAmericanWashingtonQuitWay

I always had this talent - it is something you get when you are born, so I have just worked, and it has gone well for me.

Riyad Mahrez

TalentMeYouBornAlwaysGone

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

Rose George

EatCarryWearShipsStuffPercent

You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.

Mary Beard

TheatreYouInterestedHardly

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

LiveWorldEngineeringKnowBuild

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

Jonathan Banks

GreatMeYouEdgyMoreOut

I think that, whatever happens, I'm just happy I've written those songs and I've made an album. That's really big for me, and I'm proud of that.

Aurora

HappyMeProudThinkWhateverBig

The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.

Priyamvada Natarajan

DeepDNAMysteriousContextSeek

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Scott Adkins

RestThinkTryingYouNewSkills

We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Nick Vujicic

FamilyGodWillNeverFailUs

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