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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Chris Hadfield
Success
Best
Leadership
Matter
Achieve
Glorious
Shine
Consequences
Others
Back
Focused
High
About
Laying
Crowning
Motivated
Goal
Ultimately
Stakes
Them
Then
Really
Your
Team
Standing
Groundwork
Acts
Letting
Keeping
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.
Molly Ivins
Life
Politics
Money
Paper
Stakes
Chips
Your
Play
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
Success
Failure
Creative
Risks
Opportunity
Destructive
Thoughtless
High
Risk
More
Risk-Taking
Seize
Taking
Perhaps
Course
Caution
Goal
Any
Essential
Where
Which
Inaction
Stakes
Even
Wasteful
Chance
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
H. R. McMaster
Great
You
Army
Feedback
Criticism
Just Be
Believe
Say
Frank
High
Great Idea
Boss
Idea
Because
Just
Want
Stake
Stakes
Worked
Lives
Right
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
Aaron Lazar
Responsibility
Live
Think
Consequences
Those
Tell
Having
Through
Without
Real
Stories
Stakes
Really
Actor
Why
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Management
Own
Some
Only
Small
Almost
Hotels
North
North America
America
Stakes
Them
What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.
Alane Ferguson
You
Emotions
Will
Nothing
Churning
Would
Something
Mystery
Like
Readers
Ultimate
Up
Get
Upper
Stakes
Engage
Your
Compel
Levels
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Alex Berenson
Technology
Business
Big
Would-Be
Take
Suppliers
Big Companies
Often
Stakes
Use
Companies
Leverage
In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
Ali Fazal
Day
Will
Appreciating
Our
Way
High
Above
Industry
Realise
Stakes
Hollywood
Bollywood
Film
Actor
Start
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
Amy Chua
Parenting
You
Mistake
Made
High
Feels
Like
Know
Get
Personal
What If
Quite
Afraid
Stakes
Right
Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.
Amy Cuddy
Challenges
Big
Judgment
Everyone
High
Component
Able
Some
About
More
Entrepreneurs
Maintaining
Ideas
Likely
Very
Pitching
Whether
While
Social
Stakes
Them
Successful
Moments
Presence
Present
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Christmas
People
Car
Big
Those
Kind
Ruthless
Involved
Big Cars
Go
Get
Want
Stakes
Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.
Andrew Flintoff
Home
You
Club
Too
Cricket
Those
Some
Risked
Kit
Through
Never
Cheapest
Soon
Opened
Schools
Accents
Came
Were
Heard
Walking
Mouths
Lads
Where
Estates
Loved
Stakes
Whites
Games
Deemed
Played
Raised
Posh
I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!
Betty Gilpin
Me
You
Song
Sense
Musicals
Out
Inside
Feel
Like
Because
Felt
Makes
How
Loved
Breaking
Stakes
Much
Sometimes, daily life doesn't match the high stakes that you feel! And I feel like that is wrestling. Wrestling actually makes sense to me.
Betty Gilpin
Life
Daily
Me
You
Sometimes
Sense
High
Wrestling
Feel
Like
Match
Makes
Stakes
Daily Life
Actually
I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations.
Brian J. Smith
Life
You
Big
Fighting
Locations
Out
High
Something
Attached
Stuff
Sci-Fi
Dealing
Always
Doing
Been
Years
Huge
Green
Personal
Green Screen
Going
Screen
Personal Stuff
Stakes
Really
Your
Explosions
Cool
Two
Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million or $40 million.
Brian Reitzell
You
High
Indie
More
Studio
Pictures
Talking
Lot
Than
Just
Whether
Movies
Stakes
Million
Stressful
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
Buzz Aldrin
Type
Airplane
High
Runway
Vegas
Development
Name
Retiring
Like
Call
NASA
Orbit
Just
Spacecraft
Stakes
Landing
Urging
Then
Gambler
Flies
Foster
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
Carla Gugino
You
Sports
Win
Win Or Lose
Black
Black And White
Lose
White
High
Because
Gets
Movie
Stakes
Really
Works
Levels
Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Carol Berg
Dark
Think
High
Hopeful
Some
Angst
Like
Call
Reviewers
Yes
Endings
Stories
Stakes
Satisfying
Violence
When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
Charles Kimbrough
Time
Character
Prayer
You
First
Stage
Every
Every Time
Say
Broadway
Laugh
Out
Minutes
More
Demands
Five
Gets
Just
Want
Place
Little
Stakes
Your
Who
Even
Keep
Actor
Night
Starting
Two
Raising
I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.
Chris Pratt
Truth
Character
Comedy
Try
Whatever
Fighting
Drama
Tell
Laughs
Scenario
Real
Still
Go
Role
Get
Any
Stakes
Really
Hard
Play
The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
Christopher Meloni
Life
You
Theatre
Hate
Everyday Life
Meal
Difficult
Every
Everyday
Once
Correctly
High
Fraught
Find
Feast
Never-Ending
Very
Done
Stakes
Then
Working
Reason
Why
Play
Every Night
Night
Tedium
Deep-stack games like High Stakes Poker are the favorites among both poker pros and avid fans of televised poker. In these games, the most talented players shine and the most exciting action takes place.
Daniel Negreanu
Fans
Shine
Action
Televised
High
Favorites
Both
Pros
Exciting
Takes
Poker
Talented
Like
Most
Place
Stakes
Avid
Games
Among
Players
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
David Foster Wallace
Consequences
Our
TV
Weapons
Tendencies
Simply
Intensified
Stakes
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
David Ulevitch
Depression
You
People
Win
Better
Valley
Say
Distracting
Running
People Say
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Higher
Delusion
Make
Sort
Makes
Doing
Ironic
Expectations
Maybe
Just
Stakes
Create
Successful
Hard
Company
Growing
Why
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