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Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.
‐‐ Rodney Stark -
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.
‐‐ Mike Pence -
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.
‐‐ Don Yaeger -
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
‐‐ Irma S. Rombauer -
Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.
‐‐ Steve Martin -
Most comedy comes out of misery.
‐‐ Seth Rogen -
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres -
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
‐‐ Harry Harrison -
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
‐‐ Greg Behrendt -
Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.
‐‐ Robert H. Grubbs -
Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
‐‐ Maisie Williams -
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
‐‐ Eric Ries -
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
‐‐ Alex Berenson -
Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.
‐‐ Scott Weiss -
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
‐‐ Gary Hamel -
Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.
‐‐ Jay Samit -
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
‐‐ Indra Nooyi -
Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
‐‐ Reed Hastings -
Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz -
Most computers today have built in backup software.
‐‐ Barton Gellman -
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
‐‐ Timothy Geithner -
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.
‐‐ David Shuster -
Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti -
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
‐‐ Erin McKean -
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards -
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
‐‐ Margaret Millar -
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio -
Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle -
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
‐‐ Ken Kercheval -
Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
‐‐ Jeremy Jackson -
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
‐‐ James Surowiecki -
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
‐‐ Denise Morrison -
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
‐‐ Neal Stephenson -
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen -
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
‐‐ Dolly Parton -
Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.
‐‐ Edvard Moser -
Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan -
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
‐‐ Joichi Ito -
Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky -
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
‐‐ John Banville -
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah -
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
‐‐ John Grisham -
Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.
‐‐ Greg Grandin -
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler -
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
‐‐ Michael Schudson -
Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.
‐‐ Russell Smith -
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
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