Takumi Nishijou Quotes & Sayings

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do. — Bruce Babbitt

On the day that Raphael crossed the border, the seas had turned a violent impossible blue, as had every river and every lake across the world. Even the rain that fell from the sky was a glorious blue, and when it shattered, it left behind a sparkling residue, faceted diamond dust in the palm — Nalini Singh

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. — Nas

What are you going to wear?" "My badass face." "Good choice," he said. — Ilona Andrews

A man painstakingly plans for every detail, carefully lays the foundations, picks his moments wisely and adds the right pieces with gusto only to be confronted a turn before the end of the race by a stubborn, more dead than alive, old man. — Angelo Tsanatelis

If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it. — Mike Birbiglia

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all. — David Livingstone

People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes. — J.A. Konrath

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. — Thomas Hobbes

One can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative. — H.G.Wells

Never mind being first. If you want to count for something, be the last of your kind. — Jan Strnad

It is worth recalling here that the injudicious use of rewards and praise can be pressure tactics no less than verbal or physical coercion. As we have seen, there are three dangers with motivating by means of reward and praise. First, they feed the anxiety that not the person but the desired achievement is what is valued by the parent. They directly reinforce the insecurity of the ADD child. Second, since children can sense the parents' will pushing them, even if under benign disguises such as gifts or warm words, counterwill will be strengthened. Third, praise and reward will themselves become the goal, at the expense of the child's interest in the actual process of what he is doing. Children thus motivated will sooner or later learn to get by with the least amount of effort necessary to earn the praise or the reward. Short cuts and cheating often follow. Accepting — Gabor Mate