Max Aitken Quotes

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

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• Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Think
  • Hair
  • Yellow

• I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Work
  • Hunting

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Spirit
  • Revolution
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Never
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • House
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Know

• When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Tree

• 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

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Science
  • Law
  • Coffee

• Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

  

  Charles Evers

• 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.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Question

• The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Blessed

• All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Work
  • Nature

• I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Practice
  • Positive
  • Dance

• There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • You
  • Way

• I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • World

• I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Job
  • Happy

• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Eye
  • Broken

• When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • People
  • Stories
  • Humans

• Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

  

  Max Aitken