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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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 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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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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No one is above the law.
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I wash my hair once a week. If it gets stinky in between, I just dry-shampoo it.
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I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
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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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The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.
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I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
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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.
