Flats Quotes - Page 30

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Commitment, Organization

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• You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Stupid, World, Earth

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• I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Fall, Years, Long

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• The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
  While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
  “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Eye, Men

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• I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf.

  Kool G Rap

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lines

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• Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

  Leonard Binder

  Fall, Learning, Reality

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• Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin',
  Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Mother, Self

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of
  his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were
  horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases
  above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on
  his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Eye, Hair, Yellow

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  Karl Jaspers

  Greatness, People, Independence

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• My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.

  Tiger Woods

  Kids, Bills

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• I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

  Brian Setzer

  Would Be, Ears, Being Cool

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• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too.

  Frederick Corder

  Hands, Musical, Boots

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• There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats

  Thierry Henry

  Block, Two, Firsts

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• As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Thinking, Design, Paper

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• Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.

  Nikki Sixx

  Creativity, Artist, Long

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• The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Evil People

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• Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, Speech

  Abraham Lincoln, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1970). “Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Character, Eye

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• For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
  was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
  Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Grief, Heart, Self

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• Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

  Sam Altman

  Organization, Salary, Lows

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• Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Average, May

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• I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

  Drew Brees

  Wipe, Diapers, Way

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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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