Adeshina Odetayo Quotes & Sayings

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking. — Tim O'Reilly

There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not 'bear the wounds'2 of battles' avoided. Petrified imaginaries are the scars of our aversion; calcified thought coagulated into magical formulas of destructive equivalence. — Anonymous

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying. — Paul Galanti

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. — Ridley Scott

The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset. — Julie Garwood

I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right? — Gabe Polsky

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. — Tim Howard

Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals. — Dan Lyons