It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It’s hard to prepare for the worst when you think you’re the best.
The qualities I look for in planners or creatives is very much the same thing. Beyond the givens of talent and work ethic, I really look for people who are inspired by the everyday, people who are not afraid of the obvious and are able to reinterpret it into a creative and interesting manner.
He’s evil. I believe in redemption, but I haven’t seen any redeeming qualities in Henry Kissinger.
You have to try and do everything to show your best qualities; otherwise, you will not be here anymore.
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
When I’m problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that’s like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
To understand Mozart’s contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
We’re always observing, and we’re cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we’re ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre qualities of being outside are necessary for being a writer.
I want someone who is easy going and chilled out, most importantly someone who makes me laugh. Someone who lets me be me, so I can just be myself. Mr Right has got to have those qualities.
For me, nothing brings out my ‘born yesterday’ idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
The same qualities that we all have that are good can lead us to bad things or lead us into a crisis if we don’t try to balance them.
We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left – or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics – and maintain its integrity – all over the world.
I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist’s best qualities and really highlight them.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Being respectful towards others and a loving and caring nature are some qualities I admire.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I’d like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay’s character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
It’s always going to be difficult to compete with a player of Lionel’s ability, but Eden has all the qualities to do exactly that.
I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don’t have the environment, you just wither away. It’s like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
I am strong enough, and I have qualities, and when good players come in, I will play with good players.
Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality.
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain’s heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent – important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It’s not like I’m handy.
Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they’ll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want.
A residential school also takes cares of the problem of malnourishment and interaction with their peers, and their teachers help build the qualities of a leader.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That’s one of their nicest qualities – their brute persistence.
Bobby Kennedy’s conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.
I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the ‘Bourne’ franchise.
Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
I try to help the team, and I know what my qualities are, how I can use it to be successful at the highest level. That does not always look so elegant.
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She’ll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
It’s all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
To play for Barcelona will help me show my best qualities to the world.
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details.
There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
When I started playing football, I started as a left-defender. Maybe I wasn’t very talented in that position but I knew that something good could come out of it. I got some skills with my feet and that helped me a lot later on. Those qualities have helped me a lot in my career.
Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it’s a team game, it’s not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities – they work hard, they’re selfless, they put the team before them – I have no issues with them.
That’s one of the core qualities at Real Madrid – you’ve got to be able to win all the time.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we’re imaginative. We’re resourceful. We like challenges.
