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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
thinking two size
I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. Carre Otis
thinking media giving
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.' Carol Roth
thinking self starting-out
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. Carol Leifer
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields
thinking long people
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
thinking giving people
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope. Carol Moseley Braun
thinking protection incumbency
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
thinking issues giving
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
thinking rights color
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
mountain matter born
Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently. Brent Weeks
mountain
...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty... David Mitchell
mountain
For the mountains shall depart Bryn Terfel
mountain groups terrible
Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it. Jase Robertson
mountain building forbidden
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden. Alain Robert
mountain chile blockage
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' Alan Alda
mountain way
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top. Al McGuire
mountain important life-is
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. Edmund Hillary
mountain desert painting
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings. Edward Ruscha