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.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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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.
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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.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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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.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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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.
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I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.
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When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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.
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Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress
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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.
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I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.
