Distempered Psychopaths Quotes & Sayings

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack. — Stewart Butterfield

Foreign policy is about trying to project the European model, its values, its principles, to the outside world. But at the moment, the European model is not as fascinating and as attractive as it may have been a few years ago. We have to be aware of this and take it into account when we try to promote our European system. — Pierre Vimont

In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective. — Dalai Lama

Beauty is a form of Genius
is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. — Richard Cecil

Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that effort seriously and to recognize that a book may have taken ten years of a writer's life, that the writer has put heart and soul into it. And it behooves us, as book-review-editors, to treat those books with the care and attention they deserve, and to give the writer that respect."
Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review editor, in a Poets & Writer's interview
(something for all reviewers to think about) — Madeline Sharples

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. — Lemony Snicket

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. — George W. Bush

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun. — Franny Armstrong

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders. — Radhanath Swami