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Matthew Stewart Quotes

Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.

Matthew Stewart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: January 2, 1963

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Business Beginning People World Know

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.

Melvin Van Peebles

Ignorance Greed Pig Wall Street Big

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Maximilian Schell

Music Piano Learned Played About

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

Sophie McShera

Tea Me Friends Feeling Go Afternoon

I hope I die before I get old.

Roger Daltrey

Hope Die Old Get Before

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

Judith Tarr

Great Time American Interesting

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Denise Van Outen

Me Choice Young Never Out Through

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

Douglas Brinkley

Day One Day Others Point Above

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

Christopher McCulloch

Love Art Advertising Design Fast

A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.

Brian Selznick

Change People Book Think Sometimes

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.

Antoni Porowski

Bachelor Psychology Degree Background

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

Ali Smith

Change World Questions You Ask Read

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

History Government Suffering Turn