- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today Quotes
What today decides for tomorrow.
This page connects present-day choices to long-term consequences, whether in communication security policy or the shifting economics of building a sports team. For present-moment reflections, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.
- Good Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020