Polverini Bros Quotes & Sayings

Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them. — Frederick The Great

I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. — Lisa Kleypas

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment. — Dick Costolo

The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are. — Flemming Rose

The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them. — Anthony Trollope

We can see the beauty of life, with positive focus. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest. — Jim Rohn

if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home. — Pierre Bayard

Who, except the poets, reads poetry? — Babette Deutsch

Holy mother of whoring nuns she's hot. Fuck! I haven't just crossed the border into boner territory, Mr Happy's erected a tent from my jeans and is setting up camp there. — Carmen Jenner

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?! — Fay Wray

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. — David Chalmers

But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join ... he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning. Pg 55 — Mark Helprin