Otterloops Quotes & Sayings

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door. — Tom Peters

Over on our left the other three tanks of our Troop are misshapen black beetles swimming in a cauldron of fire...great spouts of flame illuminate a long vista of forest...in a hurricane of blast the tops of the trees dance against a sky of incandescent orange. The explosions, starting as vermilion pinpricks, bulge into leaping rainbows of light. A huge square object rises lazily above the trees, turns slowly over and over, then drops into the writhing forest. — Ken Tout

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To Sherman, a large, complicated national government was contrary to "the true spirit and genius of republican government," which should be small and simple: — Mark David Hall

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) — Robin R. Meyers

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials. — Bill Hybels

To believe or not to believe, is a problem. To leave or to conceive is another problem. To ascertain and to achieve is to solve the problem. — A. Saleh

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! — Matt Groening

There are five key characteristics that will tend to explain how quickly an innovation is adopted. They are (in order of importance):
1.Relative advantage is whether the innovation is better than what is out there already. This can be in effectiveness, economic or even prestige terms.
2.Compatibility is the extent that an innovation is consistent with existing values and norms.
3.Simplicity is the degree to which innovations are perceived to be easy to understand and use.
4.Trialability is the extent to which innovations can be experimented with on a limited basis. Trialability is particularly important to early adopters, as they have no vicarious experience to draw on.
5.Observability is the extent to which the results of an innovation are visible to others. — Gary Johnson

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left. — Rand Paul