Maximizing Quotes

• I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

  Amar Bose

  Giving, Corporations, Way

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• Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Mean, Public Service, Broadcasting

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• Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Shooting, Wheels, Example

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• Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Teamwork, Teaching, Learning

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

  George Barna

  People, Investing, World

  George Barna (2013). “Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions”, p.30, Baker Books

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• Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Creativity, Simple, Ideas

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• The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.

  William Eckhardt

  Success, Winning, Numbers

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• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  Carlton Fisk

  Powerful, Careers, New Job

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• Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

  Seth Godin

  Educational, Competition, Rare Moments

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• Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Life, Light, Space

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• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  Fernando Flores

  Motivational, Powerful, Business

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• If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

  Nora Roberts

  Confidence, Business, Answers

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Powerful, Failure

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Lying, Essence, Risk

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.239, John Wiley & Sons

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• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• Are you maximizing your minute or are you making the most of the moment?

  Lindsey Stirling

  Moments, Minutes

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• Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.

  Evan Rosen

  Jobs, Collaboration, Tools

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Organization, Leader

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.191, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Weakness, Fixing

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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