Michael Grose Quotes & Sayings

Teaching people doesn't subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you're letting them in on what you know. — Austin Kleon

I hope people will think very carefully about the future, — Queen Elizabeth II

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops. — Erwin Rommel

No matter where you go, no matter what you touch, there is cancer and syphilis. It is written in the sky; it flames and dances, like an evil portent. It has eaten into our souls and we are nothing but a dead thing like the moon. — Henry Miller

the author's judgment is always present, always evident to anyone who knows how to look for it. Whether its particular forms are harmful or serviceable is always a complex question, a question that cannot be settled by any easy reference to abstract rules. As we begin now to deal with this question, we must never forget that though the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear. — Wayne C. Booth

I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead. — Marty Rubin

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside. — Maggie Stiefvater

Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it. — Anthony Pratt

The Wit is more curse than gift, I sometimes think. Perhaps the hardest part of possessing it is witnessing so completely the casual cruelty of humans. Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have towards animals. — Robin Hobb

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel De Cervantes

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success. — Susan Choi

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. — Samuel Johnson