Quotes of: American-people Keyword

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played toge...

Wynton Marsalis

People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn’t wear a title.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Knowing more people is not important in growing your business. However, more people knowing you is the key to wealth. Be a magnet, and all the refrigerators will come to you—along with all the free food that comes with them.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths we create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so, however, we must recognize that ...

Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the re...

Norman Finkelstein

A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

If I hung out with my clones all the time, would I be introverted or extroverted?

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.

The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can't Read, Write or Add

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education