Gene Spafford Quotes

But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

Gene Spafford

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• Security

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• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hope
  • Universe
  • Focus

• I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Son

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chemistry
  • Almost
  • Algebra

• I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Heart
  • Doing
  • Choice

• Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Advice

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Real
  • Truth
  • True

• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Door

• Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • World
  • Gym

• You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Stop

• The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Money
  • Small

• Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Respect for mother and father is good, generosity to friends, acquaintances, relatives, Brahmans and ascetics is good, not killing living beings is good, moderation in spending and moderation in saving is good. The Council shall notify the Yuktas about the observance of these instructions in these very words.

  

  Ashoka
  • Respect
  • Generosity
  • Instructions

• I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.

  

  William the Silent
  • Plant
  • Issues
  • Please

• But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Quality
  • Needs
  • Security