Top 55 Maier Quotes
#1. When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.
Derek Ridgers
#2. In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
David Alan Harvey
#3. Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
Corinne Maier
#5. I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.
Hermann Maier
#6. It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.
Hermann Maier
#7. Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.
Corinne Maier
#8. It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.
Hermann Maier
#9. When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?
Hermann Maier
#10. When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.
Hermann Maier
#11. Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it ...
Corinne Maier
#12. If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.
Hermann Maier
#13. Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
Corinne Maier
#14. Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.
Corinne Maier
#15. It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.
Hermann Maier
#16. The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.
Hermann Maier
#17. At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
Hermann Maier
#18. There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.
Hermann Maier
#19. Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
Corinne Maier
#20. This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.
Hermann Maier
#21. Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.
Hermann Maier
#22. Masters's, as a way of getting her son out of
Thomas Maier
#23. In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
Corinne Maier
#24. Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
Corinne Maier
#25. I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
Hermann Maier
#27. I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
Hermann Maier
#28. Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.
Hermann Maier
#29. The middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.
Corinne Maier
#30. My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
#31. Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.
Corinne Maier
#32. I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.
Hermann Maier
#33. I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
Hermann Maier
#34. One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.
Hermann Maier
#35. We have to make room for other people. It's a wheel. You get on. You go to the end. And someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end. And so on. And somebody else takes their place.
Vivian Maier
#36. The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.
Corinne Maier
#37. As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Hermann Maier
#38. I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.
Hermann Maier
#40. I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.
Hermann Maier
#41. I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.
Hermann Maier
#42. Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.
Hermann Maier
#43. Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.
Paul L. Maier
#44. I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
Hermann Maier
#45. We live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.
Corinne Maier
#46. Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.
Corinne Maier
#47. The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.
Charles S. Maier
#48. Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.
Corinne Maier
#49. Any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.
Corinne Maier
#50. When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.
Corinne Maier
#51. For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
Hermann Maier
#52. I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.
Hermann Maier
#53. When they arrive at the English meeting at 2:50 on a Monday, people look generally disgusted. At the end of the meeting, they look specifically disgusted.
Patricia Maier
#54. It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.
Hermann Maier
#55. I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
Hermann Maier
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