If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.
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CURT SCHILLING That's what Blair did great, he was just a great entertainer. You'd watch him and escape from whatev... MICHAEL FLANNERY The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Michael Brown was on the job, was doing his job, and was making sure people above him at the White H... ANDY LESTER Michael Brown was on the job, was doing his job and was making sure people above him at the White Ho... ANDY LESTER I was learning a ton and getting paid well, but I was not doing what I was most passionate about. MATT KELLEY 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I was feeling it today, doing whatever was necessary to win. We've got a lot of guys who can get it ... BRANDON BOWMAN Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and sup... 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This was not what I wanted - they are good friends and colleagues.... IAN RUSSELL It was a very general question, and a very general answer was given. There was no mention of what co... HELEN JONES I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame... REBECCA LOOS I was raised doing martial arts. VICTOR WEBSTER Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. ~WALT DISNEY I am curious to see what the others do. I was stressed. I wanted to know if it was too much like wha... OLIVIER THEYSKENS Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri... J.K. ROWLING Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri... J.K. ROWLING Do what you love doing. JULIANNA MARGULIES Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards... 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But I think that it's ju... MICHAEL J. FOX My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. MICHAEL J. FOX I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. MICHAEL J. FOX My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i... J. MICHAEL BISHOP When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o... MICHAEL J. COHEN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you. MICHAEL J. COHEN Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but... J. MICHAEL BISHOP Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i... MICHAEL J. FOX Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others...... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pity is a benign form of abuse. MICHAEL J. FOX The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. MICHAEL J. FOX Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient... MICHAEL J. FOX After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going... MICHAEL J. FOX There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te... MICHAEL J. FOX I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going... MICHAEL J. FOX I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is... MICHAEL J FOX My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f... MICHAEL J. FOX I think there's a god and I know it's not me. MICHAEL J. FOX There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end... MICHAEL J. FOX When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act... MICHAEL J. FOX