Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. – Robin S. Sharma
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn’t ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone’s there. – Robert Smith
Fortunately, now I’ve got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest. – Ryan Kwanten
Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it’s not even summer. – Ryan Hansen
Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld – they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open. – Patrick Ewing
All the sounds on ‘Trapped in the Closet’ – the knockin’ on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns – we sampled all of those things around my house. – R. Kelly
My hope is that shows like ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses. – Randall Park
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. – Robert M. Pirsig
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling. – Robert M. Pirsig
When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response. – Patrick Carman
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door. – Quincy Jones
If you’re a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer. – Per Petterson
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. – Olusegun Obasanjo
I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch. – Olivia Wilde
One of the things I really love about restaurants is that in many ways, they are the ultimate democratic institutions, where you get to walk in the door, plunk down your money, and for however long that you’re there, you can be anyone you want to be. – Ruth Reichl
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference. – Ralph Nader
I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying. – Rosa Parks
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing – that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one’s door. – Paul Muldoon
I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I’m very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things. – Olivier Megaton
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. – Randy Wayne White
I don’t necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door. – Rula Ghani
If you’re a casting director, you’re going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall’s son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer. – Rafe Spall
Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things. – Octavio Paz
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that – which is inside all of us – then all of a sudden, they’ve opened up a door of endless resources. – Roscoe Mitchell
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn’t have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me. – Owen Hart
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren’t opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it’s about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can’t empathize with the opposing party, then you can’t really meet in the middle. – Octavia Spencer
People only look at you and say, ‘You are black and you are from the banlieue,’ and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through. – Omar Sy
I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it’s very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don’t want to share. – Rosie O’Donnell
If you’re not connected emotionally to a story, then you’re dead. You’re really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. – Paul Feig
