Scott Westerfeld Quotes

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

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• I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Technology

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Scared

• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Death
  • Gay
  • Enough

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Sad

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Desire

• I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Better

• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Health
  • Sleep

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Better
  • Result
  • Been

• It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • People
  • Music
  • Today

• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Strong

• Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • You
  • Search
  • Questions

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Conflict