Maurissa Kiefer Quotes & Sayings

No man can be stronger than his destiny. — Mary Hunter Austin

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology. — William H. Calvin

Perfection is a feeling; you'll know it if you've ever questioned the competency of your penmanship before writing on the first page of a new notebook. — Louise Gornall

You call it Loneliness, I call it Solitude. — Asma'u Shaheedah

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat. — Pete Rose

Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way. — Chris Wooding

It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal. — Anthony Powell

Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me. — Jerry Seinfeld

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain. — Francis Bacon

Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths. — Steve Erickson

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.' — Peter Thiel

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda. — Shepard Smith

Sometimes artists like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint." Mari — Maureen Johnson

I try to be really balanced. I walk a lot, I wear a Fitbit, and that has really been a game changer for me. I get my steps, I eat whatever I want, I go to France and put on my bread-and-butter suit. Then I'll be balanced, like I'm going to eat my salads for a few days. But I just try to be really balanced with my body. And that has been a good pact for me so far. — Abigail Spencer

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it. — James Van Allen