Else Quotes

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.