Almost Always Quotes
429 Almost Always quotes by 346 unique authors
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's…
— Brian Eno
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Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
— Vivek Wadhwa
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I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security…
— James Risen
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A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous…
— Tom Freston
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You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost…
— Dick Pound
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Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
— Norman Macbeth
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Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.
— Will Schwalbe
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Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
— Laurie Alberts
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There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.
— Peter Cundill
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ...
— Colin Powell
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Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never…
— Clayton Christensen
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There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
— Seth Godin
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Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success
— John P. Kotter
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The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.
— Jeff Cooper
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Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are…
— Rob Pike
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God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of…
— Jerry Bridges
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A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the…
— Harry Browne
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