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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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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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.
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When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.
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And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
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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.
