Pettersson Blogg Quotes & Sayings

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. — William Hazlitt

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects. — Umberto Eco

Is I the insomniac's question?
Are you a dendrite or a dream?
Between oblivion and affection,
which one is fear and which protection? — Bruce Smith

I am, by nature, an optimist. — Martin Heinrich

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that. — Nicholas Sparks

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for. — Ray Lewis

Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story. — Jerry Spinelli

He was impoverished in every way that meant something to him. However, he did have his health. But that only made him alive when he wished he was dead. — Sarah Noffke

I believe benchmarking best practices can open people's eyes as to what is possible, but it can also do more harm than good, leading to piecemeal copying and playing catch-up. As one seasoned Toyota manager commented after hosting over a hundred tours for visiting executives, "They always say 'Oh yes, you have a Kan-Ban system, we do also. You have quality circles, we do also. Your people fill out standard work descriptions, ours do also.' They all see the parts and have copied the parts. What they do not see is the way all the parts work together." I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another "great person. — Peter M. Senge

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way. — Philip Pullman

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes. — Klement Gottwald

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways. — Bruce Springsteen

We conclude, therefore, that determining the supply of money, like all other goods, is best left to the free market. Aside from the general moral and economic advantages of freedom over coercion, no dictated quantity of money will do the work better, and the free market will set the production of gold in accordance with its relative ability to satisfy the needs of consumers, as compared with all other productive goods.10 — Murray N. Rothbard