Experimentum Crucis Quotes & Sayings

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great — James C. Collins

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York — Anna Godbersen

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great — Jon Gordon

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income. — Frank Bruno

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day ... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. — Glenn Gould

There is beauty not only in that things work, but how they work. — Bernd Heinrich

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. — Steve Carell

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. — Soren Kierkegaard

What you can't be with, won't let you be. — Debbie Ford

O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections. (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions). — Brother Lawrence