Charney Quotes & Sayings

Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. — Shannon L. Alder

The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East. — Leon Charney

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. — Benjamin Franklin

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women. — Dov Charney

At times, to make progress, you end up offending people. And people were offended by many things I have done over the years. But I did what I felt was right, especially from an art and creative point of view. — Dov Charney

First, we would reposition UPI by bringing it into the 21st century with new technology. And second would be to better utilize its assets, like the library and archives, which have terrific value. — Leon Charney

I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday. — Leon Charney

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation. — Leon Charney

Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink. — Bobby Heenan

We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it. — Frederick Lenz

I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me. — Adam Rapp

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces. — Joanna Lumley

Anything we want to do, we can do. If we can dream it, it can be done. — Dov Charney

Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit. — Leon Charney

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister - comes from hating human beings so much, I think. — Isaac Asimov

There's no way in the world that the United States does not want to spread democratic ideals, but the first thing we have to do is that which is the interest of our security. — Leon Charney

At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat. — Tim Ferriss

Rejection has nothing to do with the quality of your work. If you believe in your product, it's just a matter of time before someone publishes it. My trick was this: send out ten letters to agents or publishers. Each time you receive a rejection, send out another three. Repeat until you've achieved what you desire. — Noah Charney

Passion. That's it. When you believe in what you're doing, that's it. — Dov Charney

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground. — Andreas Feininger

observes the veteran international pollster Craig Charney, that while the Internet "improves the ability to connect, it is no substitute for political organizations, culture, or leadership - and spontaneous movements tend to be weakest in all of these." Many Arab Awakening efforts ultimately failed because they could not build an organization and politics that could translate their progressive ideas into a governing majority. — Thomas L. Friedman

But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad. — Courtney Maum

There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat. — Leon Charney

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read. — Leon Charney

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. — Carson McCullers

I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward. — Leon Charney