Kisskiss Saty Quotes & Sayings

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs. — Ferdinand De Saussure

A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter? — Rajneesh

Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. — Henry Mintzberg

Choose to live your faith! — Rosanne Pallini-Verlezza

I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful. — Leonard Nimoy

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me. — Erica Durance

[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value. — Georges Bernanos

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them. — Irwin Shaw

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — Mike White

He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted the five pages in many places. His handwriting was a looping but legible scrawl, and ha must have been bearing down hard, because the words were actually engraved into the cheap notebook pages; if I'd closed my eyes and run my fingertips over the backs of those torn-out sheets, it would have been like reading Braille — Stephen King

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India. — Winston Churchill

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult. — Laozi

the second is that if you haven't found a market to sell the product, you have not innovated.34 — Jon Gertner