David Maister Quotes
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I write in a small office at home.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
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They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.
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I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.
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The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principple of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.
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I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.
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I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
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When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
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As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
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The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.
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I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.
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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.
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Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
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God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).
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I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.
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What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
