Theodore Roosevelt Quote

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. - Meg Ryan

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. - Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. - Michael Douglas

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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. - Stephen King

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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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