Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.
I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.
I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New YorkBostonWashington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.
I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing. '
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U. S. , we'll look the other way so you can stay.
Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an expression that you've heard a million times, but it was a nice way of telling me I was overdoing it.
Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar. . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.
We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.