"I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor."
― Madeleine Albright
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Change
More From Madeleine Albright
- "No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground."
- "We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture."
- "I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government."
More In Change
- "I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right."― Debra Winger
- "I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it."― Brian Eno
- "Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."― Denis Waitley