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asking may usual
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone? Charles Caleb Colton
asking good-enough enough
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Alan Alda
asking-questions people understanding
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
asking want grumbling
What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one. Catherine Booth
asking-why television want
Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? Caitlin Moran
asking believe creating impose precisely product seeking short stopped
We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall. Joel Klein
asking continuous customers full needed options picture planning strategic
We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer. Shai Agassi
asking calls kept last shot tuesday year
We started it last year as a one-time shot on a Saturday. And on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we kept getting calls asking us if we were going to do it again. Keith Dory
asking clues everybody garage questions series start
We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
contracts course others
The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year. Don Howe
contract daniel pleased
We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year, Dave Lewis
contracts production safe ways
We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.
contract leads matter whether
Whether that leads to a contract is another matter entirely.
contract prevent
We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.
contract cost move next option pick regardless team
When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season). Bernie Bickerstaff
contract forced freeze gave previous three wage
Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal). Willis Reed
contract direction moving situation team
With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.
contract expecting point resolved work
We're expecting a contract (today). The association has pretty much made their point to me, they want this resolved (today) or there could be another work stoppage.
eliminated somehow
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. Timothy Noah
eliminated guys played proud
We're not eliminated yet. I'm proud of the way the guys have played this year, they get after it. We're only going to get better. John Gibbons
eliminated good till
We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day. Allen Iverson
eliminated technology today using
Much of what's being outsourced using technology today will be completely eliminated by technology tomorrow.
eliminated error obvious separate took trial
I did trial and error on myself and it took two months. I eliminated all the sugars, obvious sugars, and I ate carbohydrates separate from protein. Suzanne Somers
eliminated life themselves women
A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out. Gabrielle Union
eliminated however whatever
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
eliminated however stupidity truth whatever
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
eliminated form happen playoffs spent thinking vowed waking
The day that we were eliminated from the playoffs was the day I vowed that would never happen again. I spent every waking moment, in some form or fashion, thinking about a way to get us back.
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
management labor position
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor. Charles M. Schwab
management son
Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.
management sole folly
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole. Benjamin Franklin
manage takes time
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time. Larry Gagosian
manage stops supposed
Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives. Kate Forsyth
manage people
Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.
means
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson
means police sit
We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.
means next propose range rifle trail year
We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end. Tom Reilly
means names people science whenever
Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.
means share slowing
When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
means time whenever wherever
For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. Natalie Massenet
means speed start
We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.
means progress promote secret service social society unity
Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. Sathya Baba
means regime settled
We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down. Jimmy Smith
unions communism china
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
unions degrees different
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
unions students active
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
union
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. Lech Walesa
unions soviet-union capability
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. Alexander Haig
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. Aleister Crowley
unions facts quitting
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
unions unjust would-be
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare. Albert Camus
unions classic blokes
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. Clive James
unity mind doe
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
unity chaos duality
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
unity hallucinations serious
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
united-states significant congress
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Chris Chocola
unity harmony
Peace, unity and harmony! Cathy Freeman
unity abstract concrete
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. Edith Stein
united-states lines problem
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Denis McDonough
unity important economy
Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.
unity france three
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. Charles de Gaulle
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.