Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
