Wim T Schippers Quotes & Sayings

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future. — Ken Wyatt

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. — Mae West

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be. — Dennis Covington

You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming. — Karl Lehenbauer

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time. — W.S. Merwin

20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes? — Gail Carriger

Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. — Herman Melville

You seldom hear any young artists in country music. — Conway Twitty

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans
in pure principle
we do not and never will know all the principles — R. Buckminster Fuller

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. — Vladimir Putin

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. — Henry Ward Beecher

Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage. — Auliq Ice