Vangala Davenport Quotes & Sayings

Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck. — Jeffrey Archer

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity. — Philip Athans

Down close to certain flowers
all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence. — Gerald Vizenor

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief. — Artur Davis

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort you put into scoring against your opponents, and defense is the effort you apply to stop them from scoring against you. Those who suggest that "a little healthy competition can't hurt" are thinking only of the offense part....

The offense component of internal competition is problematic, but the defense component is always injurious. When peer managers play defense against each other (try to stop each other from scoring), they are engaging in anticooperation. — Tom DeMarco

Neanderthals usually hunted alone or in small groups. Sapiens, on the other hand, developed techniques that relied on cooperation between many dozens of individuals, and perhaps even between different bands. — Yuval Noah Harari

Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus. — Sarah Noffke