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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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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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 think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.
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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
Antony Sher
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
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'Listen,' she said. 'I get off in an hour. Sit in the back. I'll see you then.' As though they'd agreed to this a long time ago. That was the sign, he was as yet unused to noticing it but he was learning: that sensation that the future has already happened and is only bringing itself about in staging these present moments.
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Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
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My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
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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.
