Backeberg Bermuda Quotes & Sayings

In the most trying times, you would trust your people; you would extend hard challenges to them and allow them space to fulfill their responsibilities. You would access their intelligence in a way that would actually make them smarter. — Liz Wiseman

They make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by looking for deep thoughts and ideas everywhere and putting them into everything. just have the courage to
give yourself up to first impressions..don't think all the time that
everything must be pointless if it lacks an abstract thought or idea — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In Orissa, where it is mining bauxite, Vedanta is financing a university. In these creeping, innocuous ways mining corporations enter our imaginations: the Gentle Giants Who Really Care. It's called CSR, corporate social responsibility. — Arundhati Roy

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. — Hugh Hefner

I had five dollars in the bank that I couldn't have for three days until they charged me another 15. Leaving me with -10. What does that mean? I don't even have no money any more. I wish I had nothing. But I don't have it. I don't have that much. I have not ten. Negative ten. I can't afford to buy something that doesn't cost anything. I can only afford to get something that costs you give me ten dollars. — Louis C.K.

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad. — Paulo Coelho

Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'. — Timothy Keller

You just were so cold with me. And the nurse's outfit didn't seem to make any kind of impression.
Whatsoever. So I thought . . .' I looked at the ground. 'I thought you were only staying because you had promised me and then . . . when I asked you,
you didn't deny it.'
'You didn't give me a chance to,' he said, shaking his head at me. He took a step nearer. 'And believe me the nurse's outfit made an
impression.' He took another step towards me, so he was just a few centimetres away. 'A very big impression. — Sarah Alderson

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality. — Richard Rohr

Regardless of where many of us believe we land - in that field encumbered by not too much baggage or entirely too much - we all come from the same place, which is a road rutted by experience so banal, nearly remarkable, that memory tricks us into remembrance of it again and again, as if experience alone were not enough. What are we to do with such a life, one in which we are not left alone to events - love, shopping, and so forth - but to the holocaust of feeling that memory, misremembered or not, imposes on us? — Hilton Als