Shamil Marcus Quotes & Sayings

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up. — C. K. Prahalad

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. — Janet Fitch

Too much of our society looks for people to fail. — Roger Goodell

I'm not going to hurt you, Naomi. I'm not going to cheat on you, or lie to you, or leave you. I'm not going to look at the dark parts of you and think they're ugly. I'm not running from you. I'm here, baby. I'm right here, and I'm knocking on the door. Let me in. Let me in. — Marysol James

I lean forward and grab the bowl of ice cream she didn't finish and pull it to my, then take a bite. She watches me as I close my lips around the spoon and pull it out of my mouth. She scrunches up her nose staring at the spoon. "I could have herpes, you know," she says. I grin at her and wink. "You somehow just made herpes sound appealing. — Colleen Hoover

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton

If you are wondering why the planet is getting bigger, I'm sure it's going to hit you any second." - Ruth Valencia — J. Stone

You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.
Ideas come and go, stories stay. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education. — David Nicholls

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. — Diane Sawyer

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it. — Jackie Earle Haley

Shoot first and ask questions not at all — Richard Marcinko

you must play by a new set of rules - because, increasingly, the tried-and-true tenets of success are just tried, not true. — Blake Mycoskie

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer. — Johan Cruijff

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin. — Oswald Chambers