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'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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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.
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A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.
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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.
