Confessioni Proibite Quotes & Sayings

that when we can celebrate and truly own what it is that makes us different, we're able to find the source of our greatest creative power. — Catherine Burns

I think there's a need for somewhat of a mindset change. We need to have a consistent external focus. We've always had the research labs. We've always had the resources to be innovative, and we've been innovative in a number of businesses. But, in any big company, you have to constantly push people to look at markets and customers, rather than look internally at themselves. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject. — Honore De Balzac

The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others. — Joel Bakan

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman

I need someone to talk to. Well, not exactly talk. I need someone to listen. — Cait Doolittle

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense. — Walter E. Williams

It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him. — M.L. Stedman

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it. — Guy Maddin

What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of monsoon means to the Indian. — Khushwant Singh

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance. — Sherwin B. Nuland

By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us. — Thomas Traherne

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged. — Mickey Rourke

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ay me! sad hours seem long. — William Shakespeare