Competently Colors Quotes & Sayings

The poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are. — Kathleen Raine

The "Excellence Standard" is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day's work cannot be assessed as Excellent, then the oceanic overall goal of Excellence has not been advanced. Period. — Tom Peters

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit. — Epicurus

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. — Salman Rushdie

There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters. — Yotam Ottolenghi

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter. — Emma Stone

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit ... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park
Central Park is a much safer place. — John Thune

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. — Orson Welles

The work is the most important thing. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau