Sprester Quotes & Sayings

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy moves into compassion. And this movement is very different. Desire has a motivation in it, a goal; compassion is nonmotivated, there is no goal to it, it is simply overflowing energy. — Rajneesh

Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic. — Clive Barker

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away. — Helen Fisher

Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie. — J. B. Pritzker

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about. — Agnetha Faltskog

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. — Robert Frost

The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be. — Frederick Lenz

Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her. — Alice Miller

it is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the life of an animal would be valued as highly as that of a person, and Saint Francis, who once petitioned the Holy Roman Emperor to scatter grain on fields on Christmas Day and give the crested larks a feast. — Mary Roach

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success. — Abel Ferrara

Let go of your worries and focus
only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true .
I know,
Glaedr — Christopher Paolini

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else. — Dontrelle Willis

Jazz is my adventure. — Thelonious Monk