Chenzs Quotes & Sayings

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read. — William Zinsser

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling. — Stephen Bayley

Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered. — Tacitus

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. — Patricia Churchland

Everyone wants to be great, until it's time to do what greatness requires. — Joshua Medcalf

She had never cared for social things, as society was just a complicated collection of individually annoying people, and she didn't like most people to begin with, — Larry Correia

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around. — Megan Charpentier

It's strange. When I couldn't find the drop and the plague came, you seemed so far away I would not ever be able to find you again. But I know now that you were here all along, and that nothing, not the Black Death nor seven hundred years, nor death nor things to come nor any other creature could ever separate me from your caring and concern. It was with me every minute. — Connie Willis

Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision. — Mike Jellick

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness? — Sarah-Patton Boyle

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top with the phone saying 'Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine.' The trunks shudder — Jeanette Winterson

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. — Timothy Ferriss