Unconcealed Online Quotes & Sayings

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. — Noam Chomsky

Father, help me focus on my strengths and trust others to fill the gaps of my weaknesses"

Every leader knows the skills in which they excel. They also are aware of those tasks that they maintain a certain level of competence along with those duties they struggle in accomplishing. In my experience there are "want to's" and the "have to's" of leadership. The "want to's" energize a leader and the "have to's" zap the leader's creativity and time. The quicker a leader can find those around them that will fill the gaps of their weaknesses, the more effective they will be in achieving God's mission. — Gary Rohrmayer

Barbie was no longer afraid of anything. It was like the thing Mab had said about belief. The belief is sometimes the biggest part of it all. You can choose to believe in your published book being held in the loving hands of strangers, your name tattooed forever on the heart of the one you adore; you can choose to believe in tiny red-haired pesky piskies--all the things 'they' may tell you not to believe in. But who are they anyway? What do they know? What makes them any more real? — Francesca Lia Block

Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing. — Israelmore Ayivor

The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans. — Andrea Illy

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it. — George Singleton

For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining and poised like young warriors stepped out of some lost myth, heads lifted, too bright to be real. — Tana French

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members. — Frank Quattrone

AESTHETICS OF OPERA
Don't sing an aria
To someone who can't
Sing one back. — Kenneth Koch

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. — Shunryu Suzuki

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome. — Erwin McManus

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state. — Peggy Noonan

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic. — Anita Roddick

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like. — Al Pacino