David Maister Quotes
Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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God gives us the power to act for ourselves, but let me tell you something. At five in the morning I have never heard this he says mimicking a knock on the door. Hello Jack, this is Jesus. I will work out today.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.
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Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
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Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.
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I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
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I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.
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I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.
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The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..
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Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
