There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs.
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.
I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.
You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.
The whole creative process. . . is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
I think nuance is very important to have in the conversation, nuance that's been lacking for a long time. A lot of voting organizations only exist every four years, putting all this money into "your voice is important!" Wouldn't that be nice, if that's all it took? Voting is the first political action for most people. But if you don't follow up then voting is not actual participation but just a one-off.
Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.
If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.
There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.
There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.
Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.