Alku Jobs Quotes & Sayings

I'm learning not to read too much into good things. I'm learning just to appreciate the good while you have it in your sights. Not to worry so much about what it all means and what will happen next. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual. — Pete Newell

I don't think there's a less elitist thing on earth to do than to try and reach out and connect with another human being . . . And that's what the best writing does, that's what art does. It looks a reader in the eye, and it proceeds honestly with that reader, and nakedly. There is a compact there, a bond, a relationship, a union, a symbiosis . . . It's not about you. Whether you're a genius or an idiot savant. It's about the work. The work is more important than you. So it's not about back-claps and plaudits and "isn't that author smart." It's about, "this book really connected with me. And even though you, my friend, are very different from me, I'm lending it to you, because I think it will connect with you as well." Community. Across the eras. Between people who have never met, who will never meet, who are nonetheless bound in something together, in different ways. — Colin Fleming

Sikhism was then, as Muhammadanism
in the seventh and eighth centuries, and
Wahabeeism in the present, a religion of the sword, and the new converts appeared as ready to fight with each other as with the common enemy against whom
alone they ever united. — Lepel Henry Griffin

Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand? — James Lapine Stephen Sondheim

The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions. — Hal Elrod

Creating art is basically creating a series of failures — Alex Pardee