Cyberfriends Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Companies come up with elaborate, often passive-aggressive ways to say no: processes to follow, approvals to get, meetings to attend. No is like a tiny death to smart creatives. No is a signal that the company has lost its start-up verve, that it's too corporate. Enough no's, and smart creatives stop asking and start heading to the exits. — Eric Schmidt

PAYING ATTENTION TO GOD We bless GOD, oh yes - we bless him now, we bless him always! PSALM 115:18, THE MESSAGE Prayer is the most thoroughly present act we have as humans, and the most energetic: it sockets the immediate past into the immediate future and makes a flexible, living joint of them. The Amen gathers what has just happened into the Maranatha of the about to happen and produces a Benediction. We pay attention to God and lead others to pay attention to God. It hardly matters that so many people would rather pay attention to their standards of living, or their self-image, or their zeal to make a mark in the world. The reality is God: worship or flee. THE CONTEMPLATIVE PASTOR — Eugene H. Peterson

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating. — Pope Francis

We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The human is a mystery, even too himself. — Chloe Thurlow

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Silence doesn't mean he or she doesn't know the answer. Just in time, you will know what his or her response. — Shim Steward

Clearly not all these people who said that God spoke to them heard the same thing. All the fighting nations said God was on their side. How could God be on everyone's side? — Jeanne DuPrau

We must plant the seed of desire, water it with sincere faith. If you think you are beaten you are. If you dare not, you don't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it is almost sure you won't." 14 — Pamela Grundy

The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture. — Czeslaw Milosz

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy. — Mark Spitz

I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy. — Warren Spector

It wasn't that Ed would make it okay
he had his own problems to deal with
but somehow the sum of them added up to something better. They would make it okay. — Jojo Moyes

...observing things changes the outcome. — G. Norman Lippert

I would stumble and fall all the time. Even with the right kind of shoes. The ground just has something against me! — Anonymous

Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising. — Robin Hobb