Stef E Quotes

#1. I see a lot of tech companies developing technology here and selling it abroad, but I don't see new factories being built, and that worries me, because it means we are not creating the jobs that will guarantee a good life for Israelis.

Stef Wertheimer

#2. Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

Stef Penney

#3. Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.

Stef Wertheimer

#4. I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.

Stef Wertheimer

#5. Be who you are, not who you are forced to be...

Stef Schuurman

#6. Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Stef Penney

#7. Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.

Mercedes Lackey

#8. My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.

Stef Wertheimer

#9. Ana is convinced she can bake anything."
"I can. I'm going to make tarts and you're going to like them."
Stef grinned. "If you need help putting out fires, I'm next door.

Jodi Meadows

#10. Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

Stef Wertheimer

#11. I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.

Stef Wertheimer

#12. The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

Stef Wertheimer

#13. Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.

Stef Wertheimer

#14. Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

Stef Penney

#15. I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

Stef Wertheimer

#16. The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.

Stef Wertheimer

#17. Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

Stef Penney

#18. We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.

Stef Wertheimer

#19. Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.

Stef Wertheimer

#20. I love you more than I ever thought possible. You are the beat of my heart.

Stef Ann Holm

#21. The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.

Stef Wertheimer

#22. I don't use real people for inspiration.

Stef Penney

#23. I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.

Stef Wertheimer

#24. Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.

Stef Wertheimer

#25. For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.

Stef Wertheimer

#26. The fact is that we created 10 to 20,000 jobs for Arabs and Jews and Druze, which has made the Galilee a very positive place.

Stef Wertheimer

#27. I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Stef Penney

#28. The ColU, sitting on its tabletop, seemed to Stef to twinkle. 'I'm Colius the Oracle now.

Stephen Baxter

#29. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Stef Penney

#30. I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.

Stef Wertheimer