Misorientation Quotes & Sayings

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. — James Altucher

But that's depression, isn't it? It makes you selfish. It ... it shrinks your world down. Like you're inside a tornado or something. How are you supposed to care about the things outside that storm? When it's all you can do to just survive it? — Rebecca Rogers Maher

For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance. — Lois-Ann Yamanaka

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out. — Timothy Egan

One of the differences between assertiveness and aggressiveness is deciding which battles are worth fighting and which are not. — Thomas J. Harbin

She slowly turned around, placing her hands on the handle behind her, and inadvertently knocking the heavy, wooden door with her foot. She lifted her stunning eyes to his, seeming to see clear through him, hitting his heart, then deeper to the center of his soul. He wondered what she saw there, perhaps a dark shadow lurking in the midst. — Madison Thorne Grey

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. — Benjamin Cohen

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. — Robert Duvall

You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance. — Dorothy Dunnett

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. — Robert Breault

There's another way to put it. Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water. — James Lee Burke

If you # love love, look for yourself. — Rumi

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. — R. Buckminster Fuller

He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway. — Raymond Chandler