Gouvea Fernando Quotes & Sayings

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!' — William T. Vollmann

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules. — Orson Scott Card

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation. — Neal Shusterman

Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his first treatise on the rainbow; the young Newton's most joyous discovery was the composition of white light; Goethe's great color work, like Newton's, started with a prism; Schopenhauer, Young, Helmholtz, and Maxwell, in the last century, were all tantalized by the problem of color; and Wittgenstein's last work was his Remarks on Colour. And yet most of us, most of the time, overlook its great mystery. — Oliver Sacks

You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy." — Mitch Hedberg

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers. — Jack R. Cotner

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing. — Robin Quivers

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget. — Daniel Suarez

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. — Ken Blanchard

I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever. — Ray Allen

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead. — Larry Page

Because you don't live in a book. Nobody does, silly. Things never happen the way they would in a book. There isn't foreshadowing. — Laurel Snyder

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. — Vince Lombardi