Demiurgic Brand Quotes & Sayings

History is the third parent. — Nadeem Aslam

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent. — Chris Oyakhilome

When dealing with a complex adaptive system, sticking to the plan is a recipe for failure. — Anthony Mersino

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress. — Hayley Williams

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station. — Adam Carolla

If we read, we shall renew our minds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To write for children at all is an act of faith. — Madeleine L'Engle

Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear. — Sean Patrick Flanery

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. — Harry S. Truman

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad. — Jonathan Swift

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet. — Dee Williams

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. — Dale Carnegie

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage

One day, many years after the siege was lifted and the war was over, two nutritionists met by chance. They introduced themselves. One, Alexei Bezzubov, had worked at Leningrad's Vitamin Institute, seeking out new sources of protein for the hungry. The other, as it turned out, was Ernst Ziegelmeyer, deputy quartermaster of Hitler's army, the man who'd been assigned to calculate how quickly Leningrad would fall without food deliveries. Now these two men met in peace: the one who had tried to starve a city, and the other who had tried to feed it. Ziegelmeyer pressed Bezzubov incredulously: "However did you hold out? How could you? It's quite impossible! I wrote a deposition that it was physically impossible to live on such a ration." Bezzubov could not provide a scientific, purely nutritive answer. There was none. Instead, he "talked of faith in victory, of the spiritual reserves of Leningraders, which had not been accounted for in the German professor's — M T Anderson

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. — Jeff Olson