Maynard Webb Quotes
When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Smoke machines are the best!
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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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.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.
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I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
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When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
