Noun Project Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a vast longing for the stage. — Anthony Hopkins

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles. — Mario Andretti

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting ... Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun
he is your friend. — Roger Rosenblatt

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. — Brian W. Fitzpatrick

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others. — Gordon Dahlquist

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been. — Billy Beane

SMaC recipe is a set of durable operating practices that create a replicable and consistent success formula. The word "SMaC" stands for Specific, Methodical, and Consistent. You can use the term "SMaC" as a descriptor in any number of ways: as an adjective ("Let's build a SMaC system"), as a noun ("SMaC lowers risk"), and as a verb ("Let's SMaC this project"). A solid SMaC recipe is the operating code for turning strategic concepts into reality, a set of practices more enduring than mere tactics. Tactics change from situation to situation, whereas SMaC practices can last for decades and apply across a wide range of circumstances. — James C. Collins

I take three showers a day. I don't need to be in the shower for 15 minutes. I'm a five-minute guy. — Rodney Harrison

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty. — Romesh Gunesekera

I can feel her smile against my cheek, and with our arms wrapped tightly around each other and our bodies connected, we both close our eyes, and for the first time in a long time, I sleep with complete peace. — Harper Sloan

An SEP,' he said, 'is something that we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That's what SEP means. Somebody Else's Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye. — Douglas Adams

That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible? — Wally Lamb

A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge
an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation. — Fumiko Enchi

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. — Sharon Salzberg

You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. — Ryan Gosling

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. — Ernst Fischer

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well — Richard L Torres