Edward Swanson Quotes & Sayings

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats. — Clay Shirky

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs. — Ken Blanchard

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require. — William Shakespeare

The plan is not what you think. — Loren Eiseley

I am not a god of forgiveness. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants. — Jenny Han

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. — Mahatma Gandhi

Tamara looked all around the inside of the car. "Yeah, I see I need to come to your church," Tamara said. "Because what I'm hearing at my church only puts me to sleep. Sleep is good for dreaming, but I'd prefer to see my dreams become reality. I want to touch my dreams. I want to sit down in the seat of my dreams. I definitely see that I need more of the right tools in life to do it right. — Vanessa Davis Griggs

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Their voices sing, "Listen . . . listen to what this world is telling you, for it is calling for your love, your rage, your beauty, your sex, your energy, your rebellion . . . because it needs YOU in order to remake itself. In order to be reborn into something else, something maybe better, more godly, more wonderful, it needs US. — Bruce Springsteen

They portray me as all these crazy things and I'm so not like that. I don't have entourages, I'm as normal as you can get in this lifestyle. — Kate Moss

the return on capital increases with the size of the initial endowment, — Thomas Piketty

I won't take a real nap. I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to close my eyes, just stay safe under the covers and breathe. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

#36: ... Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this? — Philip K. Dick