David Kenyon Webster Quotes

Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Everyone

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Job
  • Kill

• An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Work
  • Creative
  • Same

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Always
  • Watch

• The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Together
  • Government

• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Know
  • Evidence

• Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Past
  • Growth
  • Revolution

• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Book
  • Way
  • Learning

• If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Different
  • Forget

• For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Work
  • Different
  • Game

• When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

  

  Gaby Sanchez
  • Things
  • Going
  • Press

• Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

  

  David Kenyon Webster
  • Things
  • Sacrifice
  • Saved