P2145 Quotes & Sayings

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues. — Colin Powell

For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees. — Plato

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters, — Pete Hamill

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind. — Robert M. Pirsig

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator ... — Mikhail Bulgakov

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into. — Trip Hawkins

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. — Sun Ra

If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped. — John Caudwell

Everyday I realize more and more that if the world is going to change at all, it is going to change through the healing of the victims. Abusers run the show, they insist on and instigate cover ups, they misuse their power, teach things falsely out of the desire to control but as the victims heal and get stronger, the abusers will not be able to hide behind the fog that they create. — Darlene Ouimet

Being healthy means a wholeness in the living of one's life -- a dynamic and constantly changing balance that acknowledges the soundness of our physical state, the wholesomeness of lifestyle, the values that define our behavior, our intimate and collective relationships, the meaning and purpose of our work in the world, and the spiritual dimension of our existence. --William B. Stewart — William B. Stewart

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption. — Phil Donahue

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo — Demi Lovato

For an extensive and fascinating discussion of the use and pitfalls of rewards, see Edward Deci, Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (New York: Penguin, 1996); Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999); Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (New York: Riverhead, 2009). — Gretchen Rubin

The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me — Fyodor Dostoyevsky