Uldis Kokins Quotes & Sayings

We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar. — Shannon Hale

The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions ... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at? — James C. Collins

If there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here (in your head). You've got to get physically fit between your ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be thought. — Noah Hawley

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. — Al Pacino

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere — Jack Benny

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me. — Edgar Guest

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. — Mohsin Hamid

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. — John Donne

They are not leaders because of brilliancy ... but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows. — Noah Benshea

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice. — Dan Rather

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux

Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite - are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact. — Richard Rohr

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs. — Jacques Maritain