"Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work."

-- Richard Overy

#Routine Work Quotes #Goering Quotes #Argument Quotes

“I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.”
“Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.”
“Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.”

Source : Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”

Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Eat This!)". TV Series, April 4, 2003.
“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”
“It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.”
“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
“One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”

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