Maejima Kaori Quotes & Sayings

I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six. — Erin Merryn

And then a monstrous idea jumped into her head, a thought so ruthless and dark she almost fled from the contemplation of it. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation's problems, and then change how they act. — Chris Argyris

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. — Clay Aiken

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am. — Sarah Chalke

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand. — Stefano Gabbana

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses. — William Hazlitt