Boyatzis Quotes & Sayings

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. — Richard Bach

Poetry can take you places that were once only traveled by your imagination. — Delano Johnson

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT. — Ishmael Reed

What can I do?" he implores. "Just hold me. — Ava Harrison

I looked at him. I wondered what it would be like to have a father whose face you couldn't see. Whether a day would finally come when, as the daughter of a father like that, you simply lost patience - or whether you got used to it, like bad wallpaper. — Herman Koch

We know that giving someone ideas as to what
they 'should' do and how they should 'change' to be
more effective, often has the opposite effect — Richard Boyatzis

That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost — Shota Rustaveli

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense ... You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like. — Larry Ellison

You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic? — Tom Holt

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks. — Andrea Bocelli