A Capsule of Timeless Quotes

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make
In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make""and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
Author: John P. Kotter
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
Author: Joni Mitchell
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
Author: John Muir
Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
Author: Job 15:32
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
Author: William S. Burroughs
ITS ALMOST SUN DOWN I GOTTA PUT MY FOOT DOWN AND I KNOW IF I DO IT'S GONNA HURT ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU I KNOW, HOW MUCH YOU NEED ME BREAKS MY HEART, BELIEVE ME NOW I KNOW WHAT I GOTTA DO BUT IT'S GONNA HURT ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU BUT ITS GONNA HURT ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU BUT ITS GONNA HURT ME
Author: Keri Hilson
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
Author: Erykah Badu
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples
Author: John Searle
Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.
Author: Paul Kurtz
It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.
Author: Eric Hoffer
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.
Author: Ruth Buzzi
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.
Author: Robert Greene
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.
Author: John Dos Passos
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
Author: Jerry Lee Lewis
If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.
Author: Derek Sanderson
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
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Author: Beatles
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.
Author: Bruce Springsteen