Starkana Quotes & Sayings

While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves. — Travis Bradberry

Yes, "centrifugal." I will fight you. — Randall Munroe

The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. — Jeffrey R. Holland

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share. — Jean Vanier

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I looked at all the trees and didn't know what to do.
A box made out of leaves.
What else was in the woods? A heart, closing. Nevertheless.
Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.
I kept my mind on the moon. Cold moon, long nights moon.
From the landscape: a sense of scale.
From the dead: a sense of scale.
I turned my back on the story. A sense of superiority.
Everything casts a shadow.
Your body told me in a dream it's never been afraid of anything. — Richard Siken

You can't just stop loving someone just like that, you know. You can't just turn it off. — Lesley Anne Cowan

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up ... to set the organization back on the right direction. — Abigail Johnson

if you don't love your work, neither will anyone else. — Cory Cotton

What type of world are we living in, if we're destroying books? — Cat Winters

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. — Charlie Sheen

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. — Alma Guillermoprieto

I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters. — Amy Chua

As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They're called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here's a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don't we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe. — Matt Walsh

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. — James Gray