You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
COLIN POWELLWhen you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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