Rinsai Quotes & Sayings

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect. — Al Ries

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. — Martin Filler

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions. — Evander Holyfield

I used to come here to think," he told me, landing beside the tree. It was so short that my head was only a few inches above his.
"Sangris," I said in shock, "you think? When did this start? — Rinsai Rossetti

He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window. — Rinsai Rossetti

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn't it, for stories told by girls to always have a he? — Rinsai Rossetti

The hard thin body of my childhood was just beginning to miraculously soften like the cracked ground of wadi when rain falls. — Rinsai Rossetti

The healthy life: It's not just about losing the weight; it's about losing the mentality that got you there. — Steve Maraboli

Then I got to my feet, and, taking my arms, he drew me out of my picture frame, into the darkness and the heat, to a place where the ground was frighteningly, thrillingly far away, and the sunless sky was burning and trembling all around us. — Rinsai Rossetti

I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds. — Rinsai Rossetti

I frowned. Evidently, Sangris wasn't a cat who could shape-shift. It was more difficult than that. He was a nothing who occasionally pretended to be a cat. "I wish I could know what it's like for myself, that's all," I said. I felt rather the way a jail inmate would if a bird flew up and shouted through her window bars: This freedom thing? Yeah, not so great. — Rinsai Rossetti

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history. — Peter Coyote

We don't have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of. — Boomer Esiason

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I am unlike most other people because I began, not in the body of my mother, but in the brain of my father. He invented me, you see. He sat down one day and dreamed me up. -- The Girl With Borrowed Wings — Rinsai Rossetti

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom. — Rick Ross

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals. — John Sculley

Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world — Rinsai Rossetti

I wish our brains could 'hunger', like our tummies do — Ela Crain