Edvardas Zickus Quotes & Sayings

What if you were a doctor and had a patient who demanded that you stop all the silly hand-washing in preparation for surgery because it was taking too much time? 2 Clearly the patient is the boss; and yet the doctor should absolutely refuse to comply. Why? Because the doctor knows more than the patient about the risks of disease and infection. It would be unprofessional (never mind criminal) for the doctor to comply with the patient. So too it is unprofessional for programmers to bend to the will of managers who don't understand the risks of making messes. — Anonymous

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. — Jules Verne

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet ... and hoped that they would go away. — Richard J. Codey

We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones. — Kent Nerburn

It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana

Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm smart and beautiful and strong. I don't need to be rescued. — Kiera Cass

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. — Spider Robinson

I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins! — Lisa Mantchev

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given. — John William Mackail