Schmocker Financial La Quotes & Sayings

It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not. — Dominique Moceanu

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. — Peire Cardenal

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away. — Aaron Copland

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. — George Sand

Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me. — Daniel Defoe

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker. — Leo Kottke

I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your hands before you're ready to let it go. You will have time to take stuff out. You don't have to show it to anybody. That's what I did. — Melissa Febos

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room. — Rainbow Rowell

It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon. — Warren Ellis

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well. — Pearl Zhu

Because it demands large-scale paradigm destruction and major shifts in the problems and techniques of normal science, the emergence of new theories is generally preceded by a period of pronounced professional insecurity. — Thomas S. Kuhn

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful. — Margaret Thatcher

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives. — Peter Mayle