Bscala1986 Quotes & Sayings

There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to "know nature" on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way. — Carolyn Merchant

We are free only when we no longer require health, however much we may prefer it. — Arthur W. Frank

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost. — Richard Grasso

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. — Sam Mendes

You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man. — Ashley Newell

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night. — Claude McKay

Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was. — Brandon Sanderson

We call it the rule of seven. We've worked at other companies with a rule of seven, but in all of those cases the rule meant that managers were allowed a maximum of seven direct reports. The Google version suggests that managers have a minimum of seven direct reports (Jonathan usually had fifteen to twenty when he ran the Google product team). We still have formal organization charts, but the rule (which is really more of a guideline, since there are exceptions) forces flatter charts with less managerial oversight and more employee freedom. — Eric Schmidt

In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities. — Ari Ne'eman