Top 29 John Katzenbach Quotes
#1. It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.
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#2. The neurotic rich, as one doctor he knew used to term his clientele. The worried well.
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#3. Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.
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#4. What I was, isn't what I am. And what I am, isn't yet what I can be.
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#5. The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don't realize you are playing.
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#7. Belief is an odd thing for a defense counsel, Tommy. It is not necessary to believe in your client to defend him. Some would say that it is easier to not truly have an opinion, that the maneuverings of the law are only clouded by the emotions of trust and honesty. But
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#8. Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.
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#9. Young men make mistakes. This is inevitable, in any profession.
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#10. Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.
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#11. Energy in the morning, determination at midday, hunger in the evening.
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#12. If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.
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#13. Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.
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#14. Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
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#17. The woman in front of him seemed like the work of an artist who had taken the few lines that sketched out a teenager and added color and shape to create a full portrait.
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#18. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
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#19. The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
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#20. A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
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#21. A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.
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#22. In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.
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#23. Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.
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#24. It was a difficult day. Disorienting. What is it they say? Death, divorce, and moving are the three most stressful events for your heart. And your psyche, too, I'll wager.
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#25. He recalled what Phillip Pryce had said about hatred forming the undercurrent to the legal proceedings, and thought there had to be a way to turn that rage around. He thought the best lawyer finds a way to harness whatever external force is directed at his client and take advantage of it.
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#26. All the time thinking he'd had no idea before this night how easy it was in this world to be hated.
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#27. Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
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