Kingmoot Quotes & Sayings

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. — Thomas Paine

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. — John Burnside

We shall have no king but from the kingmoot. — George R R Martin

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. — Gloria Allred

Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error — Warren Buffett

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me. — Alan Furst

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!
Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it. — J.K. Rowling

In the early 1990s, Anders Ericsson, a colleague of Neil Charness at Florida State University, coined the term "deliberate practice" to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an "activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance."4 — Cal Newport