Behinds Quotes - Page 34

• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

  Robert Menzies

  Country, Business, Wall

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• The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

  Bill Crawford

  Impact, Giving, Energy

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• There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Thinking, Judging, Stories

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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  Carl Bernstein

  Missing, Quality, News

  "The failures of the press". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

  Richard Ney

  New York, Squares, Feet

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• I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

  Samantha Mumba

  Behind The Scenes, Scene, Findings

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• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Men, Paris, Black

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• Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.

  Don Frye

  Men, Car, World

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

  Marcus Thomas

  Events In Life, Feelings, Alertness

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• I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

  Lou Lamoriello

  Player, Games, People

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• My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

  Michel Legrand

  Mother, Father, Home

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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• Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Giving, Come Up

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• Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teacher, Art

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Vision in Elementary Mathematics”, Courier Corporation

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• That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Guitar, Being Free

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• I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

  Mel Brooks

  Believe, Progress, Fronts

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• One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Pet, Groups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

  James Denton

  Divorce, Long, Track

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Desire

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• Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Challenges, Way

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• How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

  Joel Barlow

  Left Behind, Mankind, Millions

  Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”

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• I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Education, Communication, Michigan

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