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"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."
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"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."
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"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."
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Personal Development
"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."
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"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."
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Personal Development
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
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Personal Development
"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
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"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
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"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
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Personal Development
"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."
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"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."
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"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
Money
"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."
Building
"You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves."
People
"Take your work seriously and yourself lightly."
Work
"Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
Act
"It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others."
Behavior
"You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it."
Reward
"An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind."
Policy
"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."
Time
"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."
Management
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