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

• I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fan
  • Bush

• 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 was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Drama

• 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

• If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

  

  Laurie Notaro
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Poetry

• My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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

  

  David Maister
  • Professional
  • Label
  • Description