Croll Quotes & Sayings

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed. — Wallace D. Wattles

After all, you'll be selling to people. You need to know how to reach them, interrupt them, and make a difference in their lives at the exact moment when they need your solution. — Alistair Croll

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much. — Karen Gillan

In the vast majority of stories, a character with weaknesses struggles to achieve something and ends up changed (positively or negatively) as a result. — John Truby

Don't just ask questions. Know how the answers to the questions will change your behavior. In other words, draw a line in the sand before you run the survey. — Alistair Croll

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like potatoes
and so do you — Myself

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. — Robby Krieger

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. — Roger Kahn

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will. — Aidan Quinn

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained. — James Croll

Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost. — Bahauddin

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads. — David Peace

James Croll, the Scottish janitor and self-taught polymath whose theories concerning Earth's orbit provided the first plausible explanation for how ice ages might have started. — Bill Bryson