W Quotes
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“What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.”
Source: The Essential Bennis
“What makes a good leader? Good leaders above and below them.”
“What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.”
“What makes a good man?”
“What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.”
“WHAT MAKES A GOOD TEACHERS – As a Student and Teacher I realised Teaching continues to undefinable profession which has a great impact on many of people, our students they are more honest not prejudiced against any one, I was interacting with many of my students they say they do not remember what really we taught with seriousness that at the end of the day, it’s not about the lesson plan. It’s not about the fancy stuff, colourful Power points we teachers make — the crafts we do, the stories we read, the papers we value. No, that’s not really it. That’s not what matters most.. They won’t remember how organized your bulletin boards are. How straight and neat are the desk rows. Certainly they remember our selfless actions As Medical teachers we can contribute best of empathy to suffering of humanity. Our kindness. Our empathy our care and concern. They’ll remember that you took the time to listen to their problems. If we look with wisdom never forget our Students are the future care takers of the Profession, when they say Good bye when leaving the department or college I say Be KIND TO SOME ONE EVERY DAY THAT IS WHAT OUR TEACHERS TOLD AND I AM PROUD TO LIVE IN THE SYSTEM WITH MANY TURBULANCES.
BE ATEACHER TO LIFE JUST NOT YOUR SPECALITY?
Dr.T.V.Rao MD”
“What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.”
“What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.”
“What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.”
“What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.”
“What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.”
Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.”
“What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.”
“What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.”
“What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?”
“What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.”
“What makes a home home? Animals, and a little bit of clutter.”
“What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.”
“What makes a language native is not flawless syntax or grammar, but a shameless flow of passion.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
“What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.”
“What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.”
“What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)”
Source: The Art of Rhetoric
“What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generations and questioning minds are the best things he left for Turkey!”
“What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.”
“What Makes a Man is COURAGE! Have the Courage of Your Conviction.”
Source: The Sagacity of Sage
“What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.”
Source: Fanny
“What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!”
Source: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
“What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What makes a man worthy and that which gives him worth is not tittle and status, it is the mere fact that he is human being, created in God's own image.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“What makes a martial arts expert and expert is practice, practice, practice! But what makes a martial arts a master is not just continuous practice, but ceaseless practice guided by wisdom. This is also true of the champion in life, the totally fulfilled person.”
“What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more intense level than it has ever before been because the barriers to providing information in the virtual world are so low and the choice of provider nearly infinite.”
“What makes a mockery of a lot of these 3D conversions, where they're shot in 2D and converted to 3D. Having laid a real 3D movie, you realize that it's right in the production design. You design sets that enhance the 3D and you design interactive elements, like the rain or smoke. If you're shooting 2D, you don't know about that.”
“What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion”
Source: All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
“What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.”
“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”
“What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.”
“What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.”
“What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.”
“What makes a person right? When someone asks for forgiveness but never receives it. Then don't they have the right to say something?”
“What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.”
“what makes a person spend time being sad when they could be happy? [...]
a person can cry or laugh. always when you’re crying you could be laughing, you have the choice. crazy people know how to do this best because their minds are loose. so you can take the flexibility your mind is capable of and make it work for you. you decide what you want to do and how you want to spend your time. remember, though, that I think i’m missing some chemicals.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“What makes a person "the same" person across life's tectonic upheavals of circumstance and character? Amid the chaos and decay toward which the universe inclines, we grasp for stability and permanence by trying to carve out a solid sense of self in our blink of existence. But there is no solidity. Every quark of every atom of every cell in your body had been replaced since the time of your first conscious memory, your first word, your first kiss. In the act of living, you come to dream different dreams, value different values, love different loves. In a sense, you are reborn with each new experience.”
Source: Figuring
“What makes a person unique is their vision, their belief, their passion, and their flat out unwillingness to give up.”
Source: SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER
“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.”
“What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"?
A lack of desire to publish, mainly.”
“What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.”
“What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it, understanding, intuitively perhaps, that the words are just right. It's not a matter of even context - delight is not limited to scenes or descriptions of happiness or beauty - but of aesthetic appreciation of the thing itself. As a reader, I find it's that moment when I want to stop reading, and also that moment when I know I can't. Delight is that it's what takes me by surprise and reminds me why I love the literary arts above all others.”
“What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.”
Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession