Artisan Hotel Quotes & Sayings

It is not that the average is never useful. Averages have their place. If you're comparing two different groups of people, like comparing the performance of Chilean pilots with French pilots - as opposed to comparing two individuals from each of those groups - then the average can be useful. But the moment you need a pilot, or a plumber, or a doctor, the moment you need to teach this child or decide whether to hire that employee - the moment you need to make a decision about any individual - the average is useless. Worse than useless, in fact, because it creates the illusion of knowledge, when in fact the average disguises what is most important about an individual. — Todd Rose

Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman — John Green

Forgiveness is a light and a gift for you. It makes you blissful, whatever you do. — Debasish Mridha

The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems. — Malcolm Gladwell

Though Napoleon at that time, in 1812, was more convinced than ever that it depended on him, verser (ou ne pas verser) le sang de ses peuples1 - as Alexander expressed it in the last letter he wrote him - he had never been so much in the grip of inevitable laws, which compelled him, while thinking that he was acting on his own volition, to perform for the swarm-life - that is to say for history - whatever had to be performed. — Leo Tolstoy

Overtime, your actions betray your heart. — Todd Stocker

Specific praying is the key to building faith — Leslie Ludy

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber

Do you like that?" I'll say in surprise since it doesn't seem like her type of thing, and she'll look at me as if I'm mad.
That!?" She'll say, "No, it's hideous"
Then why on earth," I always want to say, "did you walk all the way over there to touch it?" but of course ... I have learned to say nothing when shopping because no matter what you say ... Read more - "I'm hungry", "I'm bored", "My feet are tired", "Yes, that one looks nice on you too", "Well, have both of them", "Oh, for fuck sake", "Can't we just go home", "Monsoon? Again? Oh for fuck sake", "then why on earth did you walk all the way over there to touch it?" - it doesn't pay, so I say nothing. — Bill Bryson

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies. — Shulamith Firestone

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses — Bayard Taylor

PS 46 was just up the block, on — Irene Abruzzese

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate. — Shaun White

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story. — Ray Charles