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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
Carlos Ghosn

Best, Training, Top

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
King Abdullah II

Democracy, Rest, Muslim

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave Barry

Afraid, Child, Shots

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
Jennifer Aniston

Life, Women, Amazing

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
Dan Lipinski

Car, Help, Energy

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Reason, Characters, Admire

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.
Daniel Goleman

Mind, Depression, Nothing

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
Demetri Martin

God, Home, School

History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Thucydides

History, Philosophy, Teaching

Example is the best precept.
Aesop

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley

Life, Bad, Tried

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
Daniel Radcliffe

Society, Find, Word

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney

Children, Parents, Important

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinley

Hope, History, Dead

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Adam Sandler

Father, Perfect, Learned

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber

Women, Everything, Between

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
Annie Lennox

Children, Sure, Fast

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Change, Time, Try

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
Henry Louis Gates

Positive, Society, Black

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright

Power, America, Act

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend

Work, Best, Took

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

Success, Men, Failure

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Country, Kids

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
John Podhoretz

Thinking, Himself, Republican

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
Herman Cain

Wrong, Gone, Rule

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille

Past, Thoughts, Destiny

The most powerful moral influence is example.
Huston Smith

Powerful, Moral, Influence

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Friendship, Mother

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

Best, Legal, Political

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