Marie Jeanne Gagnon Quotes & Sayings

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one. — David Hockney

Confusion over how a person's extraordinary skill is developed runs deep. The heated debate over writer Malcolm Gladwell's "10,000 hour rule," as put forth i his popular book Outliers: The Story of Success, indicates that it is not just refeerees who get tongue-tied trying to pinpoint the fundaments of their expertise. Proficiency in activities from musicianship to athletics, Gladwell contends, can be achieved only through vast amount of practice (10,000 hours was the ballpark figure he cited, applying it to the triumphs of Bill Gates and the Beatles, among others.) — Bob Katz

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. — Tom Stoppard

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed. — Tom Hanks

Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success. — Thomas Hardy

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. — Robin McKinley

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it. — Olive Schreiner