Denn was die andere Person falsch gemacht hat, ist offensichtlich. Das Versagenspotential ihrer „Helfer“ aber versteckt sich hinter einer Fassade scheinbarer Frömmigkeit und Selbstsicherheit. (Seite 46)

Die meisten Führungskräfte werden sich in ihrem ganzen Leben nicht bewusst, das Sie nur eine Person zu führen haben, nämlich sich selbst.

Meine Verantwortung bezieht sich also immer auf die mir gegebenen Möglichkeiten und Handlungsspielräume.

Eine Führungskraft sein bedeutet, in 70 Prozent der Zeit auf Situationen reagieren zu müssen, die man sich nicht ausgesucht hat.

Das Wort Nachfolge verdeutlicht das: unser Tun folgt immer dem nach, was Gott zuvor für uns getan hat und tut! ( Seite 61 )

Das erinnert uns daran, das wir das Gute nie für uns selbst haben und sein können. ( S. 64 )

Zu wissen, was ich dort beitragen kann, und es dann von Herzen zu tun, ist deshalb ein wesentlicher Aspekt der Selbstführung. ( S. 64 )

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

I had to pinch myself. I got the call and didn't expect it. And right up 'til nearly the end of filming, I was thinking, 'Am I actually doing a film with Akshay Kumar?' because I was a massive Akshay Kumar fan before, and the first film that I ever watched was his and Katrina's film, 'Namastey London.'

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.