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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Definitely

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • American
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• 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

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

  

  David Buss
  • Competition
  • Humans
  • Evolution

• I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • People
  • Life
  • Collaborate

• Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • World
  • Art
  • Earth

• My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Important
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • People
  • Work
  • Fear