Mahdia Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves. — John C. Maxwell

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald

We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one. — Jennifer Niven

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. — Dee Dee Myers

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it — Ines De La Fressange

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French. — Jean Reno

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane. — Rollo May

Don't pinch!" said his eagle. "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Deep practice, however, doesn't obey the same math. Spending more time is effective - but only if you're still in the sweet spot at the edge of your capabilities, attentively building and honing circuits. What's more, there seems to be a universal limit for how much deep practice human beings can do in a day. Ericsson's research shows that most world-class experts - including pianists, chess players, novelists, and athletes - practice between three and five hours a day, no matter what skill they pursue. — Daniel Coyle

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices. — Idris Elba

For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field of Gender-Specific Medicine was launched by cardiologist Marianne J. Legato, M.D. in 1997 when she recognized that a gender-neutral approach could be harmful to both men and women. — Jed Diamond

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. — Moby

[When asked by a male heckler, "Are you a lesbian?"]
Are you my alternative? — Florynce Kennedy

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it. — Carolyn Chute