Tichanowskaja Quotes & Sayings

5. Lack of self-discipline. Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror. — Napoleon Hill

I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. — Nicole Krauss

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness. — Deborah Tannen

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them. — Clemence Poesy

She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood. — Matthew Salesses

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. — Tamara Feldman

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship. — Rose George

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating. — John P. Kotter

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded. — Charles Lindbergh

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence. — Kristina McMorris