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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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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In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.
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I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?
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Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?
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I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
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What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.
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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.
