Metafoor Nederlands Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow? — Thomas Friedman

The ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories. — Leslie Marmon Silko

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours. — Louisa May Alcott

Christmas is love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating). — Kate Atkinson

It was called 'We Wear the Mask', by Paul Laurence Dunbar. I transcribed the first stanza and then started jotting down my reaction to it.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, -
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

I used to wear masks so subtle I barely noticed them. A compliment to my mother after a dismal meal, a smile at my best friend when she sang out of tune, a forced laugh at my uncle's bad jokes. I wore small masks that came and went, like fleeting expressions.

I am stuck inside the mask I wear now. I want to rip it off. I want to show my scars to the world, to unveil the ugliness that breathes inside me. I want to be unashamed. I want to be unafraid. But every day the mask gets tighter, and I suffocate a little more.

I stopped writing. — Catherine Doyle

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. — Tyler Perry

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief, — Imran Khan

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them. — Honore De Balzac

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act — Sunday Adelaja