Candor Quotes - Page 5

• Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

  Steve Womack

  Demand, Recommendations, Officers

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• Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

  Jack Welch

  Skills, Careers, Boss

  "Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career" by Jack Welch, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

  Richard Curtis

  Believe, Book, Naive

  Richard Curtis (2003). “How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Thinking, Common Purpose

  South Carolina Democratic Primary Victory Speech, delivered 26 January 2008

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• Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religion, Balance, Wheels

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Doors, Views

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• Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

  Sarah Fielding

  Reading, Forgiving, Criticism

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• Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.

  Ted Gup

  Eight, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends.  The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Sex, Celibacy, Found

  Mary Doria Russell (2010). “The Sparrow”, p.201, Random House

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• The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

  Veronica Roth

  Cost, Praise, Insurgent

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Ties, Anxiety, Matter

  Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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• The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

  Glenn Close

  Acceptance, People, Needs

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• Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Eye, Perfect, Details

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• It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Heart, Simple, Doe

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.
  No lady alive can show such a skin.
  I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,
  But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.
  Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,
  Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
  Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,
  The foulest impressions I easily take.
  My parent and I produce one another,
  The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.

  James Parton

  Daughter, Mother, Fall

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• Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Heart, Maturity, Journey

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• I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

  Richard Greenberg

  Mean, Thinking, Vanity

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• I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Thinking, World

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• ... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

  Erich Raeder

  Loyalty, Military, Character

  Erich Raeder (1960). “My Life”

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• Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

  Jack Welch

  Lying, Team, Talking

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Thinking, Stressed Out

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