Warhorses Quotes & Sayings

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. — J. William Fulbright

First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival. — Jack Welch

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children. — Ruchi Sanghvi

If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you could only obtain new information by admitting you didn't know it already, savvy required an apprenticeship as a naive twit. You had to ask crude, obvious questions ... you had to sit still while worldly-wise warhorses ... fired withering glances as if you were born yesterday.
Well, Edgar was born yesterday for the moment, although his tolerance for being treated liked a simpleton was in short supply. He'd needed to rattle off a multitude of stupid questions before he embraced his next incarnation as an insider. The trouble was that savvy coated your brain in plastic like a driver's license: nothing more could get in. Hence the point at which you decided you knew everything was exactly the point at which you became an ignorant dipshit. — Lionel Shriver

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow
to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener. — Charles Dickens

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them. — Robert E. Ornstein

Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul! — Dada Bhagwan

It's not really fun listening to an insane person. Do you realize that? You're only entertaining yourself. Not much of a host, if you don't mind my critique. — Jaron Lee Knuth

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides — John Maynard Keynes

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. — Ovid

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper. — Lykke Li