Quotes About Allain

#1. Failure is the price of excellence.

Leonard Pitts

#2. When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Phoebe Cates

#3. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

Daniel H. Pink

#4. I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.

Stephanie Allain

#5. The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

Stephanie Allain

#7. Family comes first is indeed a powerful principle, but so is the imperative for your own development. It is not a self-explanatory or self-applying principle, and it can collide with other principles.

Edward Rocklin

#8. sometimes
i just feel impossible.
like life wasn't meant
for me.
like it was an
interview
i showed up to
drunk out of
my mind.

Christopher Poindexter

#9. A friend in word is never friend of mine.

Sophocles

#10. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Stephanie Allain

#11. Who can say what obscure forces were then at work in a heart that had never been tamed?

Allain Fournier

#12. I would like to see more films being made with people of color behind the camera and in front of the camera, because the more times at bat we have, the better we get.

Stephanie Allain

#13. Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

Isaac Asimov

#14. I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

Stephanie Allain

#15. Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

Errico Malatesta

#16. One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

#17. If you were in class with Aristotle, he would probably come up with something like "If it is moving up, it still has some of the force of the hand on the ball." Don't listen to him. He thinks he is a Jedi.

Rhett Allain