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People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.


Daniel L. Doctoroff

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BARRY MANN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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SCOTT HOWELL Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
RAY BRADBURY I long for acceptance, but all I get is rejection.
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DAVE SIM I have an idea, I have a passion and I have a willingness to work with people who may not agree with...
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SUSIE L HILL There is nothing I ever need to have. There is nothing I ever need to do. I say NO to the demands of...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE L: You want me just to be your... friend?

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SOPHIE KINSELLA It's an amazing new tool for people who have a need to connect with people who have answers.
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WILBUR N. NESBIT I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't...
FRANK LAUTENBERG Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection ...
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FRANCES O'GRADY Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and ...
CURTIS JACKSON You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be ban...
DARYNDA JONES Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding fr...
STANISLAW J. LEC I feel after eight terms I'm ready to retire. We need somebody with new ideas.
JUAN E. SAENZ I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I ...
MAIWENN to work with the best material that is offered to me at a time when I need to work, and with the bes...
AIDAN QUINN I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no po...
DRIES VAN NOTEN I know we have a lot of work to do and I know we need to improve. I say if we've taken a drastic ste...
LARRY BEIGHTOL I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just la...
DAN SHECHTMAN It's actually been really great. The kids are fun to work with and the kids actually do listen to wh...
ADAM GREENE The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
GERMAIN G. GLIEN The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.
FRANK OZ I think we have to go to the next step. I want to communicate to the people, more than to show my wo...
ISSEY MIYAKE That's once again the same people who told me I was too small, the same people who said I couldn't w...
RAY LEWIS I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don...
JENNIFER ANISTON Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have al...
RICHELLE MEAD He's been distracted by everything. We need someone who has new ideas and can pay attention to the d...
JOY CHANDLER I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree w...
EVE PLUMB I know who I am and what I am made of, I do not need your acceptance to identify my character…I ha...
N. S. COLE I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Golem...
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JACK POWELL Our tendency has often been to say 'Well let's let the government worry about that', 'Phone a politi...
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JERRY GARCIA I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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CHINA MACHADO Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...
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CARL COHN When I play with other people, I always have to approach it differently. It's a give-and-take thing....
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ROMAN REIGNS Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, ...
GERALD BRENAN Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, ...
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BILLY WILLIAMS As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retir...
BILLY J. WILLIAMS I don't have a monopoly on trying to solve the city's gang problem, ... I'm open to new ideas and pe...
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LOU PINIELLA I couldn't pass up the chance to work with someone who just came from putting people on the moon. Lo...
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BRENE BROWN There was remarkable enthusiasm of the staff and response of the public. The new name -- New Castle ...
ANNE FARLEY A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
BO BENNETT ...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being...
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ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS People assume that I'm girly. But people who know me say I'm more boyish.
SONG HYE-KYO I want people to challenge me. I want them to feel they can step up and bring ideas. I insist on not...
DAVID LUBARS I tell anyone who will listen to me: On a cruise, you can be with all these people, or you can be by...
GUY FIERI Now I have a new lease on life. I have a new kidney, ... I always say I carry a part of my wife arou...
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CARRIE ANN INABA Every rejection is a step closer to realizing success.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
MAYA ANGELOU We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it ...
NEL NODDINGS The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. TAWKS I was certainly too watchful and negative. Thirty balls for four runs for me is not right. I should ...
ADAM GILCHRIST I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.
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ICE CUBE I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the...
JOHN KEY A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordina...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Shhh. Just listen. You, of all people. Listen to what Im saying. This...tonight...is the most wonder...
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BEN SCHNETZER I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
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DANIEL EVERETT Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA