Postulates Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure. — Archibald Marwizi

If the government wants to hide somebody, there's probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy. — Sherman Alexie

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that. — Ian MacKaye

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there. — Roland Emmerich

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement — Robert Jordan

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works? — Martin Luther

Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it? — Paul McCrane

I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen. — Steve McQueen

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. — Oliver Goldsmith

Conformity is the only real fashion crime — Simon Doonan

It is necessary to fall in love ... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. — Albert Camus

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed - seeing and reacting quickly. On the open grassland, it was the opposite. Safety and finding food relied upon slow, patient observation of the environment, on the ability to pick out details and focus on what they might mean. Our ancestors' survival depended on the intensity of their attention. The longer and harder they looked, the more they could distinguish between an opportunity and a danger. If they simply scanned the horizon quickly they could see a lot more, but this would overload the mind with information - too many details for such sharp vision. The human visual system is not built for scanning, as a cow's is, but for depth of focus. — Robert Greene

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to. — Antonya Nelson