Boehland Patricia Quotes & Sayings

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact. — Howard Thurman

He pegged criminals as impulsive, immature, deprived of affection, and lacking in restraint, all qualities that later studies bore out. — Jack El-Hai

In addition to being flat-out hard to do, building effectiveness into an organization often comes into direct conflict with increasing efficiency. This is an unfortunate side effect of optimization, first noted by the geneticist R. A. Fisher, and now referred to as Fisher's fundamental theorem: "The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change." Fisher's example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated. — Tom DeMarco

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. — Rick Anderson

Take comfort in the devil you know. It may be safer then the one you don't — Vortigern Black

While the choices we make matter, it's what we make of our choices that matters the most. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. — Margaret Cavendish

The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it's the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery — Umberto Eco

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain. — Rodman Philbrick

You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances. — Sarah Noffke

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. — Gregory Peck

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing. — Taryn Manning