Veled Compact Quotes & Sayings

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on. — Dick Costolo

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins — Anonymous

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. — W. H. Auden

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something. — Louis Agassiz

If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in. — Paul Tudor Jones

I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!. — Tobey Maguire

A band can define their own success. — Adam Schlesinger

Because that's what normal people do when everything goes sideways. They pick up all their shit and make something that doesn't stink. — Mia Storm

We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life. — Werner Gitt

I was so fired up to protect myself from you playin' games with my heart, I played yours. — Kristen Ashley

When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special. — Regina Brett

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around. — John Betjeman