Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.' ”

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this. ”

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument. ”

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. ”

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons. ”

I've always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I've been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them. ”

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. ”

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. ”

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all. ”

The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent. ”