Lhymne A Lamour Edith Piaf Quotes & Sayings

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt - it never comes off. — Haruki Murakami

New places and new roles forced me into acute awareness of how others were responding to me. When a human is being himself, flowing with his inner nature, wearing his natural appropriate masks, integrated with his environment, he is normally unaware of subtleties in another's behavior. Only if the other person breaks a conventional pattern is awareness stimulated. However, breaking my established patterns was threatening to my deeply ingrained selves and pricked me to a lvel of consciousness which is unusual, unusual since the whole instinct of human behavior is to find environments congenial to the relaxation of consciousness. By creating problems for myself I created thought. — Luke Rhinehart

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. — Jane Austen

It's a fundamental principle of management: what gets measured gets done. — Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa — Alexander McCall Smith

And as far as Piscary is concerned, he can burn in hell - if his soul hadn't already evaporated. — Kim Harrison

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying. — Chuck Klosterman

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. — Lactantius

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. — Sharon Creech

I never believed in the virtue of fiscal stimulation of the economy; I was strongly focused on longer-term growth and thus on supply-side reforms. The whole transformation after socialism was about the supply side. (This is why conventional Western macroeconomics, with its focus on the demand side, was ill prepared to deal with the reforms after socialism.) — Anders Aslund