David Maister Quotes

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Words
  • Feeling

• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Know

• Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Argue
  • Subjective

• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Change
  • Organization

• If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • True
  • Knowledge

• The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Done

• Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Progress

• You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Life
  • Money
  • Financial

• I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas,' and I knew I liked his songs, but I didn't know who it was singing them. I just knew I liked them... I started reading, watching, and just picking up everything I could about him.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Singing

• I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Writing
  • Distance
  • Breastfeeding

• I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos

• A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • True
  • Nature

• Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Good

• I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony

• Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Today
  • Weird
  • Fake

• A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Amazing

• The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

  

  Paul Watson
  • War
  • High

• On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hand

• Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

  

  David Maister
  • Professional
  • Label
  • Description