Wieren Boek Quotes & Sayings

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing. — Jeff Weiner

As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular. — Sophie Barthes

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. — Richard Holt Hutton

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. — Jules Olitski

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off. — Lorna Luft

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories. — Madeleine L'Engle

Nice to meet you," Durand says in a ridiculously deep voice. Jeez, he sounds like Batman. "I'm — Erin Watt

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way ... — Zhuangzi

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. — Oliver Goldsmith

We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I'd thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over. — Graham Parke

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye. — Rebecca Scherm

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well. — Taylor Lautner

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time. — Jon McGregor