Krahenbuhl Global Consulting Quotes & Sayings

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes. — William Gilmore Simms

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.' — Pope Francis

I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other. — Peter Dinklage

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work — Martha Stewart

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen? — Meng Haoran

I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen. — Joe Pass

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. — John Cheever

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery. — Philip M. Parker

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding

... All will be
forgotten, everything you perceived, thought,
dreamed, hoped, remembered ... all the past
all the crawling fucking coughing chestpounding
nose-picking and deathward attempts
to make real some desperate desire, like
standing upright for a minute in the sun. The
sun that will die. — Franz Wright

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin. — Edwin Louis Cole

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. — Goldie Hawn

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies. — Jackson Rathbone