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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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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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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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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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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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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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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Stay calm and aggressive.
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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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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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What if in the afterlife you did not meet God? Could you still believe in God?
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
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The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.
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Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
