David Maister Quotes

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

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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

• 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 learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • People
  • Game

• Living in Georgia, I never wanted to model. But I had the travel bug big time when I was young. I think because I had an all-American look, I was great for catalogs. They constantly sent me overseas for editorial, but I would always come back with catalog jobs. I was fine with that. It served my purpose to see the world.

  

  Joelle Carter
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Professional

• In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers of the heavens, astrologers who divide the heavens into houses for the convenience of their prognostications. The same persons are then described as Chozim bakkokhabhim, star-gazers, those who study the stars for the purpose of taking horoscopes.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Description
  • Downfall
  • Babylon

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

  

  David Maister
  • Professional
  • Label
  • Description