Starlynn Burden Quotes & Sayings

The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance. — Cheryl A. Bachelder

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil. — M. Scott Peck

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative. — Tom DeMarco

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. — Andrew Young

New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova. — James Purdy

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. — Jordan Sonnenblick

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible. — Kirsten Dunst

We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over. — Isaac Babel

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. — Marlon Brando

I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas. — Alison Goldfrapp