David Stern Funny Quotes & Sayings

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you — Anthony Hopkins

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. — Mos Def

Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes.
"You're less like your father than I thought," he said finally, a definite coolness in his voice. "The risk would've been what made it fun for James."
"Look - "
"Well, I'd better get going ... I'll write to tell you a time I can make it back into the fire, then, shall I? If you can stand to risk it?"
There was a tiny pop, and the place where Sirius's head had been was flickering flame once more. — J.K. Rowling

Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others. — Nigel Cumberland

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer - so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. That is His only means of keeping His multitudinous, mediocre, and often meaningless spawnings from choking the existence of the rest. Yet, I will admit, He is dogged. He is still looking to improve His previous creations. — Norman Mailer

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. — Robert Breault

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. — Alan Rickman

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty. — Walter J. Phillips

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. — Virginia Woolf

The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde