#makin

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#car #cliff #continue #crisis #decisions

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#convinced #decoration #design #having #how

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#band #certain #certain things #decision-making #decision-making process

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes. ↗

— Klement Gottwald

#any #castle #changes #come #i

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#came #follow #instead #laser #making

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen. ↗

— Benny Green

#around #chance #drummers #experience #feel

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. ↗

— Eva Green

#end #i #living #making #maybe

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#book #books #collaboration #every #i