Walter Lowry Barfield Quotes & Sayings

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late. — Hesiod

Slackless organizations tend to be authoritarian. When efficiency is the principal goal, decision making can't be distributed. It has to be in the hands of one person (or a few), with everyone else taking direction without question and acting quickly to carry out orders. This is a fine formula for getting a lot done, but a dismal way to encourage reinvention and learning. — Tom DeMarco

The essence of life is fulfillment — Sunday Adelaja

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others. — Alan Cohen

How could the prisoner break his chains? I pictured a world, a righteous world, with no sin, no bonds, no social obligations; a world throbbing with creativity, innovation, and thought, nothing else; a world of dedicated solitude, without father, mother, wife, or child; a world where a man could travel lightly, immersed in art alone. — Naguib Mahfouz

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break? — Violet Cross

Satisficing is one of the foundations of productive human behavior; it prevails when we don't waste time on decisions that don't matter, or more accurately, when we don't waste time trying to find improvements that are not going to make a significant difference in our happiness or satisfaction. — Daniel J. Levitin

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Dave Parnas

She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack. — Gertrude Stein

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen? — Doris Lessing

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band — John Mayer

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at. — Nikolai Gogol

This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings. — Khaled Hosseini

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ... — Celia Fremlin