Quotes About Role

The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises that whoever dies for the nation will for ever live in its collective memory.

These logistical advances played a more significant role in the European conquest of Africa than did the machine gun.

The phantom of femininity is an illusion, a delusion, a societal hallucination. She is a very tricky character to play and it is a role (sacrifice, endurance, cheerful suffering) that has made some women go mad.

The actor cannot act a verb without an object.

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.