Taunia Oechslin Quotes & Sayings

Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again. — Debasish Mridha

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

My mom always knew I would be able to take care of myself, but my dad was afraid. — Dominique Moceanu

Having to think before actually starting is an open door to procrastination. You need lists of actions, not lists of hopes and wishes. — Kevin T. Edwards

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece. — Jan Garbarek

Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand. — Eric Maskin

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. — Lord Chesterfield

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment
the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse. — Jasper Fforde

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet. — Joan Chen

Poetry is language that speaks to our hearts. And I'm using the biblical word heart. I think the closest equivalent to that in 21st-century language is our imaginations. The heart, in biblical physiology, is the center of our emotions, but also of our intellect. Those two things cannot be separated. And poetic language is precise. It is detailed, it's realistic, but it is not the discursive language of mere fact. — Krista Tippett

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. — Sharon Stone

An eagle soaring above a sheer cliff, where I suppose its nest is, makes another striking show of life, and helps to bring to mind the other people of the so-called solitude - deer in the forest caring for their young; the strong, well-clad, well-fed bears; the lively throng of squirrels; the blessed birds, great and small, stirring and sweetening the groves; and the clouds of happy insects filling the sky with joyous hum as part and parcel of the down-pouring sunshine. — John Muir

I'd rather have people hiss than yawn. — James Dean

But more to be dreaded than this tribulation was the strange spell of sadness which the unbroken solitude cast upon the minds of stone. — O.E. Rolvaag