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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.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Charles Caleb Colton
tasks abstract modernization
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task. Dmitry Medvedev
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks turbulent-times jew
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish. Elie Wiesel
tasks looks waste
Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time. Bruce Schneier
tasks follow-through follow-up
Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won. Brian Tracy
tasks answers might
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. Carl Jung
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
tasks faces messages
To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial. Arlie Russell Hochschild
revision manipulation use
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. Hillary Clinton
revision rewards
Revision is its own reward. Marianne Moore
revision creation process
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation May Sarton
revision written our-lives
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. Katherine Paterson
revision sure surprised
I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not. Sung Sohn
revision life-is
The writer’s life is a life of revisions. Jonathan Franzen
revision assuming economy
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. Laurent Fabius
revision realms unspeakable
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. Terry Tempest Williams
revision firsts life-is
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time. Robin Ince