Kahvenin Topraktan Quotes & Sayings

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. — Richie Ashburn

Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school. — Jenna Blum

Shipmates might depend. That word: teamwork. It — Marcus Luttrell

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline. — Peter Drucker

In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out. — Ilona Andrews

Some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting around for a chance to change it. — Sarah Dessen

Intelligence is the only indispensable commodity in life or in warfare. If you think otherwise, go live in a hut with a poet. The rest of us will do our best to defend you. — Dorothy Dunnett

Seek people who seek solutions. — John C. Maxwell

Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck. — Cory Doctorow

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be ... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces. — Noam Chomsky

Life is simple: We are living in a word that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything
in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that He is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. You cannot be without God. It's impossible. It's simple impossible. The only thing is that we don't see it. What is it that makes the world opaque? It is care. — Thomas Merton

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components. — Alan Carr