Ardingly Quotes & Sayings

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe. — Russell Simmons

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. — B.F. Skinner

Maybe today some people see opposition between, on the one hand, a seemingly barren, old, institutional church, cut off from the world, looking after buildings, and worried about membership and attendance, and on the other hand, new communities, filled with life, enthusiasm, risk, openness and welcome, concerned about the big issues of the world - injustice, torture, peace, disarmament, ecology, a better distribution of wealth, the liberation of women, drug addiction, AIDS, people with handicaps, etc ... But we know that every community, with time, risks closing in on itself and becoming an empty institution governed by laws. The new communities of today can become the closed up, barren institutions of tomorrow. — Jean Vanier

For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty. — Rei Kawakubo

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie? — Gilles Deleuze

Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented both sides. But most of what we're living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information. — Hillary Clinton

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. — Neil Gaiman

I love children. — Taraji P. Henson