“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” KnowsBodyAbleActorsKnow HowBattleComfortableSingingSittingMarkDown AndTablesDancingScreensBlockSitting DownSwagger Author:Columbus Short
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.” PeopleKnowsJobsLeaderKnow HowReadyDependsBattleOrganizationCrisisBehavePredictableMorale Author:Peter Drucker
“My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.” KnowsLittlesArtWinningKnow HowAdviceHabitBattleCustomersWithout YouBest AdviceShippingWindmillsCan't Live Without You Author:Seth Godin
“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.” KnowsLittlesRealCountryTodayYoungWomenKnow HowBattleAppreciationYoung Women Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.” ThinkingKnowsFightingThreeRealizingBornCasesKnow HowTakenPiecesGenerationsFeminismBattleConflictSittingSuitsMemorableTorchesYounger GenerationDisgusted Author:Erma Bombeck
“Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .” KnowsNeedsRunningAbleMy OwnKnow HowFateTreeStreetsBattleTownsLaysBreatheThis LifeWarmthHow To Be HappySiege Author:Shan Sa
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” KnowsMenDoePerfectHalfKnow HowBattleMonte Cristo Book:Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.” KnowsFirstsChildrenMomentsMotherKnow HowBattleLetting GoDecidedParenthoodEpicReinsEpic Battle Book:Night Road Source: Night Road