Intelegent Quotes & Sayings

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows, — James McNerney

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money. — John Florio

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. — John Banville

I confess to a rare problem gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day. — Bill Mollison

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. — Martha Beck

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' — Alfred Schnittke

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. — David W. Earle

He stood there a moment longer, fantasizing once again of rescuing Lori Love. She'd turned out to be a damsel in distress after all, but not the innocent, helpless kind. No, she was a damsel of a different sort. The brave kind who fought and lied and stole and did really dirty things with the knight in shining armor. Just before she sent him on his way with a pat on the back. And that was that. — Victoria Dahl

...for, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one's personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, 'Kill him! Kill him!' he is betraying no peculiar pathology or quirk but asserting his common humanity and his kinship, however distant, with the thousands upon thousands of spectators who crowded into the Roman amphitheaters to see gladiators fight to the death. — Joyce Carol Oates

Lie as convincingly as I can and pray she doesn't kill someone important. — Robin LaFevers