Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

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• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I don't know how anyone could stop working.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Working

• I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Writing
  • Growing
  • Learning

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Drama

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Color

• As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Place

• I write in a rush of memory.

  

  Brent Runyon

• I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Responsibility

• I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• In the West, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber are the face of their songs.

  

  Armaan Malik

• The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

  

  James Broughton
  • Vision

• The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Nature

• I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

  

  Alison Sweeney
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  • Wine

• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Important
  • Engineering

• Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.

  

  Peter Levine
  • People
  • Different
  • Model

• Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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