FastSaying

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.


Peter Coyote

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude....
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.
ALBERT PUJOLS I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
LANCE LOUD I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a yo...
SIDNEY ALTMAN I have been truly blessed to, first, do what I love for a living. And, then, to have the opportunity...
ALLISON FEASTER Every one should try to be good role model . As a role model they have special burden to perform wel...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
ALAN GERRY I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young peo...
ANN RICHARDS I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have...
IDINA MENZEL I've kind of patterned my game after Derek Jeter. He's my role model in this game and has been since...
NICK DELGUIDICE It is particularly special to be honored along with my father, as he has always been my role model, ...
JOE CANNON Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to...
TOBY KEITH She's been a role model for an office full of women.
DEANINE DOLPHIN I think she is a very important teacher for all three of the girls as far as a female role model and...
HANK OGILBY Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting th...
RICHARD ATTIAS Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to liv...
BEN AFFLECK My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I hav...
DOVE CAMERON He and I go to the same church, so I've seen him a couple of times there. He is an amazing guy. Peop...
KATIE FEENSTRA So far, so good ... my role as president today is to meet and greet and serve as a role model for th...
BRANDON WALLACE Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
JA RULE I think, for me, I've realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywher...
TOM HOLLAND I never thought a role model should be negative.
MICHAEL JORDAN I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
LARA STONE I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at jugg...
MARGARET HAMBURG It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good examp...
YUAN T. LEE First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gend...
SUSAN WOJCICKI History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set...
LISA LESLIE I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a g...
DOVE CAMERON We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What...
PATRICIA HEWITT I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEY I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
YUL VAZQUEZ I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraord...
MOHAMMED VI OF MOROCCO I have a responsibility as a potential role model that I take very seriously.
SAMIRA WILEY I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been ...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.
KIM RAVER This should have been started here a long time ago. It promotes girls being involved at school and b...
ASHLEY CHANDLER We see Rhode Island as a great role model for redevelopment, especially in an urban center.
STEPHEN BISHOP I have mixed emotions today. Everybody here lost a great friend, a woman with tremendous character a...
DAVE MAGARITY It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.
LAUREN POTTER I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I prayed. I prayed she wouldn't die as a result of my treatment. And that if I died, my family would...
ANDREW SULLIVAN I never feel pressure to be a good role model. I always try to do my best to inspire people to be go...
KYLIE JENNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm not trying to be your daughters role model. I'm trying to be my role model and my daughters role...
NERISSA IRVING My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t...
LANCE GROSS Close to 90 percent of these young dads come in, and they really didn't have a positive male role mo...
CONRAD LINDO I think you've seen a blip of an increase [in gray market sales] as a lot of companies that should h...
JOYCE BECKNELL My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
ROBERT DUVALL What she brought to our young kids was a role model. She brought more than points and blocks.
CONNIE RUMMELL As a role model, he's as hip and cool as can possibly be.
JOHN KELLY My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do...
FIONA SHAW Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by ...
BENJAMIN L. HOOKS Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a...
BENJAMIN HOOKS Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a...
BENJAMIN L. HOOKS She's a role model for the other athletes. She's so encouraging to them, she treats everybody as an ...
LEAH SKIDMORE Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in ...
TOM REISS Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and s...
NATALIE GULBIS I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stre...
MONICA POTTER I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
RUMI I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Dr. King stood for nonviolence and not judging people by their skin and he was someone I looked up t...
BARRY PURVIS There's no way to eliminate the memories of the fantastic performance of Kenyon Martin. He is a role...
BOB GOIN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role mode...
RORY MCILROY I am very excited about the opportunity to become a head coach, and it's even more special to have t...
DONNIE TYNDALL Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a...
MISSY PEREGRYM I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a c...
TIGER WOODS There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story e...
CHARLIE SHEEN I'm not a role model, ... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
CHARLES BARKLEY I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my o...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ...
DAMIAN MARLEY My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an ex...
RON LIVINGSTON Be a role model for your children. If you don't manage your child's behaviour when he is young, he w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT Erika is a huge role model for me and an inspiration. I'm growing into myself and a much stronger gy...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO I am honored to be included with professor Mayor in this award. His innovative brilliance has been i...
GEOFFREY MARCY The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My...
KEVIN POWERS A lot of things have not been articulated probably as well as they should have been - about who we a...
FRED PLUMER I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk o...
SALLY RIDE It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particul...
ADAM SILVERA I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
JEREMY LIN I said, ‘I don’t think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago,’ ... She aske...
KAREN TEMPLETON All year long he?s been a real good role model for the underclassmen. The freshmen have really inspi...
BOB BENINCASA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I've been told I'm a role model to many women,
DONALD TRUMP An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavio...
WARREN BUFFETT My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or...
MALVINDER MOHAN SINGH My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had...
JAMIE LEE CURTIS One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role m...
BILL DEDMAN He's got a true spirit of giving and he's a role model to many people.
DAVID GRANT When I signed up for the show, my ultimate goal was being a role model for 13 million readers, but t...
JULIE LELAND

More Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd...
PETER COYOTE We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part o...
PETER COYOTE We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that o...
PETER COYOTE Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
PETER COYOTE It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around ...
PETER COYOTE In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page do...
PETER COYOTE Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
PETER COYOTE Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy econ...
PETER COYOTE I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonde...
PETER COYOTE In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador,...
PETER COYOTE I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero'...
PETER COYOTE Money is a way of creating scarcity.
PETER COYOTE One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-...
PETER COYOTE I am a rare species, not a stereotype.
IVAN E. COYOTE Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no...
PETER DRUCKER All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ...
PETER KLINE The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ...
PETER DRUCKER God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
PETER DRUCKER