Alistair Cockburn Quotes

Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

Alistair Cockburn

• Attitude
• Here
• Boundaries
• Agile

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• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Road
  • Open
  • Cycling

• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Simple
  • Church
  • Trump

• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Patience
  • Natural
  • Producer

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

  

  Maggie Q
  • World
  • Deep
  • Fate

• I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Los Angeles
  • Certainly
  • Los

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • Love
  • High

• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Road

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I'm half Jewish half WASP.

  

  Lena Dunham

• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

  

  Jane Addams
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• Issues that once divided Conservatives from Liberal Democrats are now issues where we both agree. Our attitude to devolution and localisation of power. Iraq. The environment. I'm a liberal Conservative.

  

  David Cameron
  • Power
  • Environment
  • Attitude

• We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

  

  David Souter

• Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

  

  Alistair Cockburn
  • Attitude
  • Here
  • Boundaries