Isambard Kingdom Quotes & Sayings

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way. — Marc Benioff

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me. — Jose Antonio Vargas

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work. — Ben Casnocha

And, when it was time for Meg to give her statement, I punched her in the face. — Penny Reid

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable. — Agatha Christie

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it. — Felipe VI

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people. — Mary Wesley

Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ... — Sylvia Plath

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it ... because it wore the face of a friend. — Cassandra Clare

I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap. — Fergus Henderson

That's one of the benefits of being an orphan: instant sympathy. — Carrie Ryan

If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.] — Isambard Kingdom Brunel