Rene Van Der Gijp Quotes & Sayings

Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
(Interview with Paris Review, 1958) — Ernest Hemingway,

My hands are still bleeding, too bloody. Every stain once gone has returned, like a permanent mark of the sins I've committed. — Christine Fonseca

One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often. — Donald Rumsfeld

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. — Clay Shirky