Abrosia Quotes & Sayings

Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work. — Ken Bain

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any. — Sadie Jones

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial? — William Boyd

If we reduce human beings to being simply physical - as Western thought is prone to do - our poverty-alleviation efforts will tend to focus on material solutions. But if we remember that humans are spiritual, social, psychological, and physical beings, our poverty-alleviation efforts will be more holistic in their design and execution. — Steve Corbett

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient — John Newman

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait. — C.S. Lewis

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off - I'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. — Alejo Carpentier

What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. — Victor Hugo

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time. — Horace Dediu

We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one - we are left with no companion save God. In — James Salter

You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew. — Paulo Coelho

I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano. — Michael Hersch

Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the soul. — James E. Talmage

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know. — John Kenneth Galbraith