Charakterystyka Quotes & Sayings

Never question your ability to overcome obstacles. Question your inability to overcome those obstacles. — Lorenzo Victory

But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; they become a large factor int he very equation they purport to measure. For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into the company in the first place because he isn't the company type, he can't very well get to be an executive and be tested in a study to find out what kind if profile subsequent executives should match. Long before personality tests were invented, of course, plenty of companies proved that if you only hire people of a certain type, then all your successful men will be people of that type. But no one confused this with the immutable laws of science. — William H. Whyte

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Right now I'm working on the second book in the series, which will be called, The Night Stalker. — Robert Bryndza

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler") — A.E. Coppard

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain. — Seth Klarman

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker

I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that. — Lennox Lewis

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. — John Adams

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely. — Vivian Gornick

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? — Friedrich Schiller

Monsieur Morcerf," said Danglars, pale with anger and fear, "if I find a mad dog in my path I kill it and, far from feeling guilty about it, I feel that I have rendered a service to society. If you are mad and try to bite me, I warn you that I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father is dishonored? — Alexandre Dumas

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. — Jean Piaget