Radical Candour Quotes & Sayings

The Adams and the Eves used to say, We are what we eat, but I prefer to say, we are what we wish. Because if you can't wish, why bother? — Margaret Atwood

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts - not to hurt others. — George Eliot

This, I suppose, constitutes one of the greatest dangers of retiring, the sudden cutting off of motive power while the mechanism is still running at top speed. It would be so much better and easier, if it were possible, to cut off the motive power gradually; in other words to retire by slow and easy stages, instead of being in full production one day, crying "Come on! Come on!" and turning aimlessly around the next still saying "Come on!" but for no reason. — Franklin Lushington

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something. — Rands

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined. — Bertrand Russell

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so. — Paulo Freire

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin. — Christopher Buckley

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. — Dennis Hastert

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. — Russell Lynes

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power. — John Piper