Steven Sinofsky (Steven Jay Sinofsky) Quotes
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
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Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.
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I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
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Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
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Honestly, I am a shy person.
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Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.
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It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.
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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
