Concepten Quotes & Sayings

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. — Henry Ford

Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books. — Julie Kagawa

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. — Saint Basil

Figure 28: The intelligent investor: strategy, process requirements and attitude — Frederik Vanhaverbeke

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. — Angela Carter

I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them. — Debbie Harry

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever ... but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed. — Suzanne Palmieri

Yes, guilty! And then it was the same on each point: — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood. — Cyndi Lauper

To have seen your lips and not ever kissed them would have been the ruin of me ... — Helen Oyeyemi

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know? — Diana Ross

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. — Paul Brunton

I don't want her to know the truth about us."
"I'm merely going to explain to explain that I'm not Nathaniel's mistress."
"You can't talk about mistresses to a well-bred Englishwoman. It violates every propriety."
"To speak in a forthright manner violates propriety?" She rose to stare at him with thinly veiled amusements. "No wonder you English lost the colonies. What with all the lying and the 'propriety' and the evasions, how do you ever get anything done?"
As she crossed the box to sit down beside Evelina, he stared after her in fascinated amazement. Americans were mad - that's all there was to it. — Sabrina Jeffries