Carl Honore Quotes

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

Carl Honore

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People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

John Mellencamp

PeopleMeYearsIndianaFourKnown

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Robert Kiyosaki

LeadershipPeopleTeamBelieveGrow

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Jeff Ament

ThreeYearsOutBigAboutHung

I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'

Spike Milligan

LifeStarsSkyI AmMeLooking

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

Steve McQueen

LifeGreatThinkingMy LifeEscape

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.

Tracy K. Smith

MomentDayPoetryPeopleMeKind

My mother is the most important person I know, and I try to be the same as she.

Trevante Rhodes

MotherPersonKnowImportantTry

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

Ro James

ChangeMusicPoetryWritingSong

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

Mindy Kaling

DisciplineHateWomanFashionThink

I had difficulty working for other people.

Don Cornelius

PeopleDifficultyWorkingOtherHad

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Draymond Green

MePotentialYouAnythingMeans

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

Ashton Kutcher

BestMeI CanDoneGetDirect

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