Bagging Leaves Quotes & Sayings

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

People meant very little to Mike, but their performance a great deal. He worshiped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own field and he felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; — Ayn Rand

You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals. — Steve Maraboli

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. — Andy Warhol

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation. — Paul Buchheit

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last. — Nicolas Chamfort

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. — Chuck Mangione

3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast — Kay Kenyon

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. — Thomas Carlyle

In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair. — Kahlil Gibran

A fool is very dangerous when in power. — Denis Fonvizin

I think Holly's right," Sophie said. "He likes you." "Oh, well, lucky me! I suppose if he loved me I'd be in federal prison. — Pamela Clare

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do. — George W. Bush

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. — George Herbert