Gronbech Sonner Quotes & Sayings

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. — George Washington

Would it not be wiser, then, to remit this part of reading and to allow the critics, the gowned and furred authorities of the library, to decide the question of the book's absolute value for us? Yet how impossible! We may stress the value of sympathy; we may try to sink our identity as we read. But we know that we cannot sympathise wholly or immerse ourselves wholly; there is always a demon in us who whispers, "I hate, I love", and we cannot silence him. Indeed, it is precisely because we hate and we love that our relation with the poets and novelists is so intimate that we find the presence of another person intolerable. And even if the results are abhorrent and our judgments are wrong, still our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant; we learn through feeling; we cannot suppress our own idiosyncrasy without impoverishing it. — Virginia Woolf

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave. — Edmund White

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer. — John Sculley

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts. — Paul Van Dyk

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness. — James C. Collins

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. — L. Ron Hubbard

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. — Emile Zola

And when we get there you can shave that fucking ferret's nest off your face. — Abigail Roux