James Clapper Quotes

I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

James Clapper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 14, 1941

Topics

CommunityIntelligencePeopleBridge

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Jennifer O'Neill

RelationshipSomeoneYouGoRight

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

BusinessTruthSmallYouLeverage

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

Jen Sincero

ExperienceBelieveWhateverMakeOur

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hickenlooper

FuturePastCityWillMoreDenver

I was a closet stutterer.

John Stossel

Closet

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Ronnie Wood

DepressionThinkBodyBackNowTry

I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.

Mike Cernovich

GreatSocial MediaI AmPeopleMe

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

Joseph Mawle

PeopleYouActingUnderstandComing

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

Dick Gephardt

FamilyFaithCollegeChurchEarly

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

Brian Cox

HomeThoughtFindingWantMovies

Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.

Pranav Mistry

TimeBoundariesOur TimeOur

The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.

Shawn Achor

DecisionHappyUnexpectedRecognition

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