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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
Family
Face
Way
Determined
Direction
Bouquet
Like
Always
Arranger
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Children
Flowers
Desires
Philly ain't a good environment for you when you headed in a different direction. Bad things happen left and right. You might walk up the street, make a wrong turn, and your whole life could flip.
Meek Mill
Life
Good
You
Walk
Bad Things
Philly
Bad
Direction
Could
Environment
Wrong
Headed
Make
Left
Up
Different
Happen
Might
Turn
Your
Flip
Whole
Street
Right
Things
Things Happen
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
Michael Porter
You
Other
Consistent
Mutually
Direction
Fact
Absolutely
How
Continuity
Continuous
Improvement
In Fact
Strategic
Each
Thing
Things
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
Neil Armstrong
Future
Game
Space
Odds
Situation
White
White House
Congress
Back
About
Direction
Directions
Over
House
Concerned
Policy
Sort
NASA
Hitting
Substantially
Where
Agency
Forth
Should
Playing
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.
Noreena Hertz
Capitalism
Problems
Focus
Thinking
Consequences
Extreme
Pendulum
About
Direction
No-One
Term
Very
Short
Where
Form
Short-Term
Far
Swung
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
Octavia E. Butler
People
Differences
Group
Other
Find
Religious
Direction
Spit
Generally
Countries
Where
Aside
Racial
Certain
Reasons
Set
I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.
Patrick Lencioni
Politics
Health
Leadership
Intelligence
Confusion
Thought
Met
Meet
Members
About
General
Direction
Various
Failed
Mission
However
Were
Domain
Expertise
Dysfunction
Forms
Successful
Required
Organizational
Team
Riddled
Who
Companies
Many
Foster
As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
Rebecca MacKinnon
You
Vote
Citizen
Community
Outcome
Direction
Push
Never
Surprised
Done
Anything
Interests
Engage
Your
Serve
Right
Things
Right Direction
I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.
Robert C. Merton
Me
People
Behavior
Father
Parents
Field
Think
Other
Indeed
Pressed
Case
Direction
Uncommon
Never
He
Academics
Terms
Go
Very
Move
Influenced
Far
Successful
Largely
Things
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.
Robert Rauschenberg
Work
Time
People
Words
Try
Think
Those
Possibilities
Bored
Rather
Direction
Ideas
Know
Until
Accept
Another
Understand
How
Am
Lot
Up
Irresistible
Stop
Formed
Then
Use
Ignore
Appetite
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
Ronda Rousey
Good
Me
You
Speed
Say
Direction
Take
Put
Idea
Arm
Like
Go
Chess
Person
Endgame
Going
Move
Want
Bar
Gonna
Convince
Certain
Actually
Herding
Good Idea
Position
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.
Thomas G. Stemberg
Time
Me
Business
People
School
Marketing
Rant
About
Direction
Pound
Retailing
Rave
He
Talented
Talented People
Most
Devoid
Also
Go
His
Fist
Influenced
Urged
Customers
Really
Used
Business School
Who
Professor
Right
Ben
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
Tod Machover
Music
Technology
Direction
Hyper
Idea
Instrument
Knows
Built
How
Being
Where
Literally
Meaning
Expression
Right
Basic
Played
My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
W. Bruce Cameron
Day
Winter
Parents
Live
Summer
Distinct
States
One Day
Minnesota
Lies
Direction
More
Part
Still
Miami
Canada
North
Same
Same Direction
Far
United
Seasons
United States
Four
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
Yolanda Adams
Work
Love
Music
God
You
Christ
Power
Gospel Music
Think
Changed
Gimmick
About
Direction
Through
Never
Gospel
Because
Around
Always
Central
Theme
Really
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Need
Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce Meyer
Life
Emotions
Direction
Never
Unstable
Very
Should
Your
Foundation
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
A. S. Byatt
Me
You
Injustice
Evil
Three
Every
Side
Sides
Punishment
Sexual
About
Cases
Seems
Direction
Only
Take
Particular
Like
Mess
Get
Which
Capital
Capital Punishment
Harassment
Moment
Things
Two
'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
Aaron Douglas
People
Changed
Trek
Television
Direction
More
Put
Mainstream
Sci-Fi
Another
Acceptable
Making
Normally
Little
Who
Map
Star
Star Trek
Watch
I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
Aaron Schock
College
Changes
Changing
Out
Some
Direction
Could
Knew
Wrong
Wrong Direction
Feel
Until
Make
Go
Going
Working
Body
Start
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Adam Driver
People
Marine Corps
Group
Corps
Something
Direction
Taking
Mission
Knowing
Learned
Within
Accomplish
Role
Then
Working
Acting
Your
Team
Applied
Marine
The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like they need to move back to Pierce Brosnan-style fun Bond again. If they did that, Dan Stevens would be the perfect choice.
Adam Wingard
Dan
Back
Would
Would-Be
Direction
Perfect
Feels
Like
Pierce
Gotten
Been
Did
Going
Move
Again
Choice
Fun
Whole
Thing
Bond
Need
Films need a good direction, strong scripts, and hardworking actors. 'Wazir' has all of these.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Good
Strong
Films
Direction
Scripts
Actor
Hardworking
Need
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
Agnes Obel
Needs
Song
Difficult
Worry
About
Direction
More
Tendency
Piano
Know
Always
Go
Than
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
Ailyn Perez
Music
Me
School
High
Indiana
High School
Direction
Point
Had
Study
Academy
Graduated
Arts
After
Teachers
University
Philadelphia
We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.
Al Sharpton
Hope
Will
White
White House
Immediate
General
Direction
Over
Attorney
Attorney General
House
Continue
Holder
Conversations
Engaged
Successor
Whom
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
Alan Menken
Work
Best
Me
Fight
Somebody
Best Work
Something
Direction
Go
Normally
Trying
Often
Want
Stretch
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