Word: intellects
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...think the great trick to a successful run in politics is to have both what you've called the wussy-mommy qualities and the macho-tough qualities. If you're only one or the other, you're going to get into trouble. A party without compassion and without intellect and without appreciation for ambiguity is going to get in trouble in an environment where there are many moving parts, not all of which are under your control. On the other hand, if all you have is empathy and ambiguity and you don't know when to stand and fight...
...movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without his intellect...
...playing in the Super Bowl--"the last two minutes for two years." He lobbied Welch for the chance to run his own unit, then took GE's weakest business--making electricity-generation equipment--and quadrupled its sales. But Jeff Immelt, who was known for his polish and intellect and ran GE's cutting-edge medical-systems business, won the top job. The other contender, Jim McNerney at GE Aircraft Engines, entertained an offer from 3M before the race was even over. That's not Nardelli's style. "I was not going to be outside interviewing," he says. "I gave...
...Alter’s confidence about his life-long friend never waned. “I always knew that Mark would be successful at whatever he did because he combined such a powerful intellect with discipline and motivation and determination...
...myself as part of a generation that was able to marry intellect with food, to take it from just being a vocation to something that is highly respected,” Chase says...