Max Aitken Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
-
The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
-
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
-
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
-
I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
-
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
-
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
-
You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
-
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
-
With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.
-
When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.
-
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
-
Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.
-
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
-
When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
-
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
-
The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.
-
All my work is always that exploration of human nature.
-
No, I've never played baseball in my life.
-
Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.
-
What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.
-
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.
-
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
