Specialism Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Be gracious like a tree; give shade even to those whose only desire is to cut you down. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out. — John D'Agata

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. — Robert Anton Wilson

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not. — Stephen King

("A classic is a book that remains in print" - Mark Van Doren) — Thomas Merton

A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side — Michael Mauboussin

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing ... because music is everything. — Ayumi Hamasaki

A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an empowered, fulfilled woman on your way to even greater empowerment and fulfillment. — Ali Binazir

His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. — John Hewson

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. — H.G.Wells

You think I don't know that, Cai?" Maris asked. "I live with him. He jumps at any sudden sound. Pulls a blaster on you if you so much as sneeze unexpectedly. And if that's not bad enough, he's walking around wired with enough explosives to take out half the capital city." Maris's — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Be humble. Be yourself. — Bobby Green