Tavion Axmis Quotes & Sayings

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems. — Atul Gawande

Then he thought of Marland just now, on the edge of the hill, how the newborn sun flamed over her shoulder, having burned through the fog of the night; how the tops of the trees were beneath her feet and the city of Crescent was small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. Her face could change like the sky itself and like the sky never lost its radiance and beauty. Sierra Marland was a facade with no end and yet she had been as genuine and true to him as the heavens were blue. — Luke Taylor

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time ... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility. — William S. Burroughs

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing. — Hermann Bondi

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle. — Faith Popcorn

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Because you understand. More than anyone. Because you know what it's like never to trust anyone - to be completely alone, lost in a disguise of your own making. Because ... because for quite some time I've - — Sara B. Larson

We tend to think that innovation comes from bureaucratic funding, through planning, or by putting people through a Harvard Business School class by one Highly Decorated Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (who never innovated anything) or hiring a consultant (who never innovated anything). This is a fallacy - note for now the disproportionate contribution of uneducated technicians and entrepreneurs to various technological leaps, from the Industrial Revolution to the emergence of Silicon Valley, and you will see what I mean. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. You just gotta push through it no matter how dark it gets. That way, when you finally get out, you'll appreciate the sun so much more. — Shakela James

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth. — Jeff Hobbs

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. — Alanis Morissette

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe