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Tom Peters Quotes

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1942

Topics

Work Search Doing Plan Prove Out

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

Interesting You Everyone Earning

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

Joaquin Phoenix

People Me Thoughts Listening Doing

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Science You Physics Know Side Brian

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

Future Culture School People Talking

I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Stars Time Best Grateful Fat Doing

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

Lie You Capable Surviving Point Own

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

People Feel Comfortable Dead Air

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

Truth Think You Conservative Tell

When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that I love about now?' I couldn't find them, so I started writing.

Love Past Writing Find Go Now

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

College Literature Heritage Citizen

When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

Makeup Face Think Better Someone

I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.

Dance Cool Thought Loved Down Party

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