Baumanelise Quotes & Sayings

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. — Peter Barris

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water. — Sherwood Smith

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry. — Henry David Thoreau

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. — Hector Hugh Munro

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice. — Ha Jin

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.' — Dick Wolf

I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "Devil Wears Prada" did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing. — Meryl Streep

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great. — James C. Collins

I confess to the trees, priests of dreams. — Gwen Calvo

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear. — Hamza Yusuf

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk

Personally, I'm a little more confident when I have a script. — Allen Covert

If we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same number of good (and bad) ideas, then we should worry if the louder and more forceful people always carry the day. This would mean that an awful lot of bad ideas prevail while good ones get squashed. Yet studies in group dynamics suggest that this is exactly what happens. We perceive talkers as smarter than quiet types - even though grade-point averages and SAT and intelligence test scores reveal this perception to be inaccurate. — Susan Cain