Pedreschi Pedreschi Quotes & Sayings

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people. — Judith Guest

After so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing and have followed it. — Hermann Hesse

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before. — Rumi

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice. — Epictetus

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence. — Paul Bowles

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. — Bill Owens

I don't care for physical activity. I'm not sporty. I'm not very coordinated. — Anna Kendrick

He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says. — Diana Abu-Jaber

How was he meant to find the Antichrist? Just walk down the street and say 'Hello. Excuse me, but could you please point me in the direction of the son of the Devil? I want to kill him.' It all seemed rather far-fetched. — Phillip W. Simpson

I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate — Lloyd Banks

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality. — Karl Albrecht

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. — Richard Serra