Ashong Md Quotes & Sayings

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully. — Joyce Meyer

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo

Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India. — Ruskin Bond

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker

The five stages of model development. - Donald Knuth, Stanford computer scientist Knuth discovered that computer program development goes through five stages. These steps also apply to building models, and I rigorously adhere to them in my consulting work. 1. Decide what you want the model to do. 2. Decide how to build the model. 3. Build the model. 4. Debug the model. 5. Trash stages 1 through 4 and start again, now that you know what you really wanted in the first place. Once you realize that step 5 is inevitable, you become more willing to discard bad models early rather than continually to patch them up. In fact, I recommend getting to step 5 many times by building an evolving set of prototypes. This is consistent with an emerging style of system development known as Extreme Programming.2 To get a large model to work you must start with a small model that works, not a large model that doesn't work. - Alan Manne, Stanford energy economist — Sam L. Savage

I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound. — Sarah Ockler

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. — Samuel Dash

For a man who thought it was okay to threaten a little girl and her mother? There was no second chance. — Eve Langlais

A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a citizen. This is the foundation of — Victor Hugo

So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed. — Don DeLillo

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp. — Victor Serge

Bogeymen or not, I was in love with Alden Thomas, regardless of what name I went by or what demon wanted me dead. — Mary Lindsey