Immaculately Maintained Quotes & Sayings

Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change. — Pearl Zhu

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. — Graham Cooke

The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year. The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases. The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information- ... That is closest I can come to explaining the legions, the nations of lunatics I've seen in my time. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful. — Joanna Runciman

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. — Mason Cooley

Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year. The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases. The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information - — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Everybody thinks it's going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too. — Kathryn Davis

The greater the vision you have in mind, the grander the things you experience in life as a reality — Keerthi Singhe

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Love is the reason. Love is the goal. — Elif Shafak

She reached out a hand and touched the hair at his temple. "You're getting a little gray here." "Big surprise. I really didn't know you'd be such a handful." "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." "Yeah," he said in a breath. He leaned down and kissed her brow. "Yeah, baby. You sure are. And you're a reproductive genius." John — Robyn Carr

Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
to be around you, to be influenced by you. — Roger Dawson