#being

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#all americans #american #because #being #believed

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#because #being #consider #day #find

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything. ↗

— Liz Phair

#approached #being #i #intensely #like

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented. ↗

— Tom Peters

#fact #lives #our #our lives #project

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. ↗

— Tom Peters

#cannot #human #human being #lovely #outset

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! ↗

— Tom Peters

#being #conned #follow #instead #leaders

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. ↗

— William Petersen

#back #being #bugs #comes #comfortable

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. ↗

— David Petraeus

#after #being #engaging #extremely #i