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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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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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'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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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 actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.
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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 first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
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When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
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Life's too short to wear boring clothes and apply boring lipsticks, and BTW, I loved my blue lipstick.
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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
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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.
