Mcinerny We Got Quotes & Sayings

Bad ideas do not just happen. We are responsible for them. They result from carelessness on our part, when we cease to pay sufficient attention to the relational quality of ideas, or, worse, are a product of the willful rejection of objective facts. — Dennis Q. McInerny

There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games. — Ralph McInerny

You can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. — Mark Helprin

Marry a person who loves you a lot, but more important, loves you best, because quality beats quantity any day. — Nora McInerny Purmort

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. — Warren Buffett

A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit. — Belsebuub

One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them. — Chang-rae Lee

How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions? — Jim Berg

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing — Chang-rae Lee

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence. — Dillon Burroughs

It was as though she existed outside of time. She didn't give a shit about being cool which I came to appreciate as very cool. "What — Vivian McInerny