Backgrounds Quotes - Page 10

• In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

  James C. Collins

  Educational, Character, Skills

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• I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Home, Simple, Thinking

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• It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lying, Writing, Rocks

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• People hear me talk and they know my background and they immediately stereotype me as being a real, real country guy, and that's the right stereotype. But you also want people to know you're a little broader than that, too.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Real, People

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• I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

  Naomi Grossman

  Exactly Is, Knowing, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

  Steven Price

  Piano, House, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

  Jon Bernthal

  Boxing, Shy, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

  Justin Broadrick

  Kids, Play, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

  Justin Broadrick

  Spiritual, Political, Protest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

  Eve Hewson

  Nursing, Jail, Nurse

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

  Linda Woolverton

  Children, Grew Up, Theater

  "Linda Woolverton and the Making of Maleficent". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  People, Campaigns, May

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A weak background is a deadly thing.

  Robert Henri

  Weak

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The call to write does not respect background or experience.

  Allen Wier

  Writing, Doe

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• When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Attitude, Heart, People

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• You don't ever really let go, though. You don't stop. You don't stop hurting, you don't stop loving. It doesn't go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it's not consuming you every day. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And then one day you know you're okay.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Letting Go, Hurt, Missing

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• The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Men, America, Magic

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• Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.

  Robin Sharma

  Humanity, Quality, Matter

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• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Belief, Embarrassing, Shallow

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• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  Terry Teachout

  Thinking, Practice, America

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• I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Jobs, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

  Zainab Salbi

  Views, Different Experiences, Diversity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

  Dan Scanlon

  Directors, Needs, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Art, Hands, Feet

  Source: collider.com

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