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“One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.”

People Ifs Way Want Asks Opportunity Building Industry Lists One Way Data Foresight

Author:Gary Hamel

“The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.”

People Long Talking Keys Exciting Edges Following Attraction Lists Reputation Living On Living On The Edge

Author:Christian Slater

“As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.”

Thinking Has Beens Young Evolution Lists Crafts Defined Improvising Tenors Coltrane Lester Young

Author:Herbie Mann

“Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in the world, and possibly in art that you like. Take this list and make a work that satisfies all of the things on your list without caring if it looks like art.”

Ifs World Looks Art Ideas Done Forget Quality Caring Lists Shopping Forget You

Author:Joseph Kosuth

“If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.”

Ifs Book Six Lists Destroyed Gulliver Gulliver's Travels

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.”

Wanted Grew Goes On Grew Up Lists Adore Movie Love Mcqueen Beatty Tracy

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.”

Knows Way Feels Self Hard Shows Home Life Is Night Responsibility Greater Activity Self Improvement Speed Lists Selfish Improvement Priorities Guilty Selfless Every Night

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

Knows Needs May Accepting Humility Conscience Lists Prize Great Writers

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.”

Humans Heart Whole Fighting Kindness Laughing Towns Lists Symbols Pretending Milk Phony Dripping Human Kindness

Author:Ben Hecht

“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.”

Source: Cavett

“If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.”

Ifs Way Firsts Next Principles Lows Alcohol Lists Substance Marijuana Tobacco Cocaine The Next One

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm working hard every day to attain all of my goals. Winning the Super Bowl is obviously at the top of that list.”

Hard Winning Goal Lists Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Chad Ochocinco

“The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!”

Fool Lists Bigots

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.”

Helping Steps Break Lists Small Steps

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.”

Needs Matter Discipline No Matter What Lists

Author:Robert Genn

“Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.”

People Want Hard Reason Realizing Painful Lists Endless

Author:Jessica Sorensen

“Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.”

Knows Has Beens Done Night Courses President Virtue Speech Areas Organization Lists Terrorist Excellent Tuesday Lebanon Tuesday Night

Author:Brit Hume

“I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.”

Writing Firsts Persons I Can Sometimes Character Order Turns Paper Lists First Person Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Phyllis A. Whitney

“That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.”

Sound Mom Lists

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].”

People Has Beens Party Lists Candidates Representatives Approved

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.”

Writing Dream Wish Goal Prayer Praying Promise Miracle Claims Lists Your Dreams Spells Journal Life Goal Make A Wish

Book:The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

Source: The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

“Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.”

Thinking Wells Kind Stills Streets Stupid Photographer Lists Titles Distinction

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.”

Ifs Play Asks Listening Offers Directors Lists

Author:Dan Stevens

“David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.”

Ends Wanted Careers Watches Saws Streets Kings Directors Notes Lists Agents Maps Harsh

Author:Joe Manganiello

“My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some list. I guess Jennifer Garner is on the top of the list for best hands and I'm fourth down. But that's for people who really like an NBA star's hands.”

People Made Hands Used Fun Stars Huge Lists Nba Fourth Jennifer

Author:Eliza Coupe

“The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.”

Important Goal Leader Keys Becoming Habit Lists Each Day Efficient Items Prioritize

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list”

Tasks Lists Existential Dilemma

Author:James C. Collins

“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'”

Ifs Needs Writing Looks Boys Greater Easier Directors Equal Direct Males Convinced Lists Tricky Screenplays Screenwriters

Author:Nora Ephron

“I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.”

People Thinking Littles Bits Quality Little Bit Expectations Come Up Lists Honestly

Author:Richard Gere

“I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.”

I Can Goal Bed Wake Up Lists Tape Hold Me

Author:Chris Solinsky

“The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.”

Want Should Long Done Morning Praying Lists Coffee Ritual Relish Sipping

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“The people who got everything wrong are back on TV talking about the place they got all wrong? Cheney, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle. It's like Satan's VIP list for Hell.”

People Talking Hell Tvs Bills Lists Satan Vip

Author:Bill Maher

“I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.”

World Way Together Stars Chance Destiny Risk One Thing Tree Feet Thousand Rivers Dignity Lists Links Mud Decency Closing Chances Are Unbreakable Leopards Pine Trees

Author:Mary Oliver

“Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.”

Mind Lists Happy Thoughts

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.”

Looks America Artist Poverty Generations Poet Drug Tradition Suicide Addiction Defeat Lists Frustration Great Art Alcoholism My Generation Great Artist Drug Addiction Drug Addict Best Poet

Author:James Dickey

“People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).”

People Needs Done Stuff Poor Habit Lists Contrast Good Work Work Habits

Author:Ray Dalio

“Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.”

Way May Moving Certain Choices Individual Wish Social Situation Groups Economic Possibility Lists Behave Destroying Mentality Momentum Freedom Of Choice

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.”

America Mom Hero Lists Heroines Single Mom

Author:Bernie Sanders

“If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you should do is to start listing your income, political views, and the like. Avoid mentioning specific comedians, shows, or movies unless those are top-tier attributes on your list.”

Ifs Men Should Trying Shows Lasts Political Views Casts Lists Income Comedian Attributes Selection Political View

Author:Amy Webb

“Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle.”

Lists Score Needles

Author:Amy Webb

“And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.”

Ifs Trying Firsts I Can Done Memories Honor Wake Up Lists Checks Each Day Items

Author:Will Schwalbe

“Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.”

Body Jobs Lists Your Body Posts Bad Jobs

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.”

Lasts Enemy Lists Pacifist

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.”

Important Book Matter Offers Difficulty Worthy Lists Advertising Chains Publishing Publishers Bookstores Manuscripts

Book:The Bestseller

Source: The Bestseller

“After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.”

Has Beens Three Waiting Five Four Week Lists Surgery Specialists Removal Neurosurgery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.”

People Ifs Looks Long Artist Left Circumstances Died Impact Lists Tragic Great Art Vans Great Artist Basquiat

Author:Simon de Pury

“Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.”

Names Stars Grace Doors Lists Ridiculous Fake Guests Soap Taboo

Author:Boy George

“My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.”

Trying Theory Essentials Paper Finals Screens Lists Publishers Ink Pixels Omitting

Author:Bill Walsh

“It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.”

“A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."”

People Ifs Years Said Enough Three Causes President Easier Behavior Lists Consideration Publish

Author:Charlie Munger

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