Kirsha Saunders Quotes & Sayings

The Armadillo A big fiesta was announced on Lake Titicaca, and the armadillo, who was a very superior creature, wanted to dazzle everybody. Long beforehand, he set to weaving a cloak of such elegance that it would knock all eyes out. The fox noticed him at work. "Are you in a bad mood?" "Don't distract me. I'm busy." "What's that for?" The armadillo explained. "Ah," said the fox, savoring the words, "for the fiesta tonight?" "What do you mean, tonight?" The armadillo's heart sank. He had never been more sure of his time calculations. "And me with my cloak only half finished!" While the fox took off with a smothered laugh, the armadillo finished the cloak in a hurry. As time was flying, he had to use coarser threads, and the weave ended up too big. For this reason the armadillo's shell is tight-warped around the neck and very open at the back. (174) — Eduardo Galeano

Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much. — Brian Tracy

The world around him had gone brown. Brown grass and gray skies. No green. No blue. No life. — Hugh Howey

The pursuit of a set purpose by logical means is the way of tyranny; the pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd means is the way of freedom. — Tom King

When you are full of fear,
there is trouble everywhere.
When you are full of hope,
there are opportunities everywhere.
Reaping little from big chances is incompetence;
reaping much from small chances is intelligence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Peace is conscious and active participation in your own life. — Mayra Porrata

Turkeys begrudge eagles when they spread their wings to fly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. — Gertrude Stein

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there. — Abigail Johnson

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man. — John Gay

Trailer park residents rarely raised a fuss about a neighbor's eviction, whether that person was a known drug addict or not. Evictions were deserved, understood to be the outcome of individual failure. They "helped get rid of the riffraff," some said. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.2 — Matthew Desmond