Ulpiano Quotes & Sayings

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. — Tom Landry

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh. — Victor LaValle

Get a degree in mechanical engineering, Hiro. Get a pilot's license, Hiro. Learn meditation and hypnosis, Hiro. Slip your roommate out of prison, Hiro. Drive thousands of clones and humans around in space, Hiro. Sit on your butt for four hundred years, Hiro.'
That's what they told me. Not once did they say, Get shot and chased and stabbed by crazed crewmates, Hiro!"
"To be fair, you were one of the people doing the chasing, crazed at the time too," Maria said.
"Semantics," he said. — Mur Lafferty

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. — Marilyn Monroe

Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, bringing us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again. — Woody Allen

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy. — Jasmine Warga

The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place. — Anne Ursu

Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there. — William Least Heat-Moon

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. — Nitin Nohria

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been. — Chris Dietzel

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation ... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu