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“Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.”

People Wells Leader Roles Position Managers Right Thing Crucial Wrong Things

Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.”

Mean Moments Games Lost Mistake Opponents Making Mistakes Crucial Crucial Moments

Author:John Wooden

“At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.”

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Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and some of the other crucial people. The remarkable thing about working with Tim is that, once he's read a script, he sketches out everybody else.”

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Author:John August

“Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.”

Ifs Want Enough Bigs Seems Can Do Impact What If Over You Crucial Can Do Something Big Impact

Author:Ang Lee

“Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.”

Want Important Certain Directors Vices Hopefully Crucial Good Work Vice Versa Good Directors

Author:Giles Matthey

“I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.”

Thinking Believe Important Life Is Choices I Believe Becoming Adults Don't Believe This Life Developing Crucial Becoming An Adult

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.”

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Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.”

“Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.”

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Author:Kevin Keegan

“Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“"Airgela" is "Alegria" backwards and "Alegria" means "Joy" or "Happiness." This is a fundamental word in this film. It's very important. Symbolically "Alegria" is crucial word in the creation of this project. Although it wasn't present from the beginning, as we were working on the music it became symbolic.”

Mean Important Film Joy Creation Projects Fundamentals Crucial Backwards Symbolic

Author:Alex Abreu

“Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.”

Thinking Action Crucial Affirmative Action Affirmative

Author:Cornel West

“I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.”

People Thinking Difficult Levels Mass Innovation Population Determine Ugly Productivity Inequality Relate Isolation Crucial Mechanism Technological

Author:Cornel West

“There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.”

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Author:Cornel West

“I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't the case, and I think that really affects how you receive what you're watching.”

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Author:David Schwimmer

“Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.”

Ifs Way Trying Has Beens Made Character South Capture Crucial South Africa Uganda

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.”

“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.”

Way Ideas Stories New York Becoming Happenings Photograph My Way Landscape California Crucial Frontiers Runaway Iconography

Author:Justine Kurland

“It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering. I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.”

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Author:Fat Joe

“A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.”

Balance Safe Privacy Crucial Surveillance

Author:Dana Bash

“As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.”

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Author:Jerry West

“Yes, we have been visited and it appears that our visitors are prepared to help us if we allow them. It is a benign contact, however there are those who think that we also have been visited by those who do not wish us well, but I can't speak to that. I just know we have been visited, and I believe that we're being observed, and perhaps we can be helped in a crucial time if we're ready for that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Wells Has Beens I Can Helping Speak I Believe Wish Ready Prepared Contact Crucial Visitors Benign

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.”

Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

“Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.”

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Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.”

Way Want Feels Wells Mean Made Changed Ready Sick Checks Uncomfortable Crucial Insecure Starting Over Get Well Things Have Changed Pressured Being Sick

Book:Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.”

Should Easier Entrepreneur Customers Crucial Thank God Cheaper Sms

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.”

People Way Writing Steps Figures Building Serious Theory Management Categories Crucial Scholarship

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.”

“The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.”

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Author:Pattiann Rogers

“I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.”

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Author:Jim Shepard

“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.”

Thinking Knows Two Stories Three Sides Common Four Missing Focused Narrative Crucial Margins Unfolding One Direction Missing Something

Author:Sarah Stillman

“Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.”

Inspiration Audience Share Crucial Unseen Tangible Rating Do It Yourself

Author:Billy Joel

“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.”

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Author:Wendy Starland

“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.”

Ifs Trying Stories Term Emotional Notes Strikes Tone Crucial Pacing

Author:Kevin Keck

“Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.”

Thinking Actors Crucial

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.”

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Author:Madi Diaz

“There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.”

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Author:Greg James

“There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.”

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Book:Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

Source: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”

People Firsts Two Dream Rights Movement Months Kings Speech Majors Towns Civil Rights Crucial Luther June Avenues Civil Rights Movement Two Months I Have A Dream Speech

Author:David Maraniss

“You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.”

“Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”

Way Years Reason Philosophy Problem Next Clear Century Conflict Crucial Controversy Pantheism Mendelssohn German Philosophy

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.”

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Author:David Papineau

“Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.”

Might Forever Grateful Mediums Crucial Soap Springboards Forever Grateful

Author:Sherri Saum

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