Wiedemann Architects Quotes & Sayings

Only those who slavishly worship success can think that effectiveness is admirable without regard to what is effected. — Bertrand Russell

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. — Chico Marx

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders. — Malcolm Gladwell

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. — Samuel Beckett

I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman! — Powers Boothe

It's the opening line of a football game returned for a touchdown. Or fumbled.

It's what orange juice is to breakfast, the first minutes of a blind date, a salesman's opening remarks.

It sets the tone, lights the stage, greases the skids for everything to follow.

It's the most important part of everything you'll ever write because if it doesn't work, whatever follows won't matter. It won't get read.

It's your opening paragraph. And enough can't be said about its importance.

Seduction. That's basically what leads are all about--enticing the reader across the threshold of your book, novel or article--because nothing happens until you get 'em inside.

And you literally have only seconds to do it because surveys show that eight out of ten people quit reading whatever it is they've started after the first fifty words. — Lionel Fisher

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. Probably — Edward Hirsch

We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

She's not the kind of person to watch someone else build a boat and set sail without her. — Ally Condie

All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn. — Joss Whedon

Didn't want you to think that I looked at you as nothing more than an orgasm machine. — Katie MacAlister

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership. — Marshall Goldsmith

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. — Voltaire