- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
- Nov 07, 2020
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.
- Good Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020