Worterbuch Pons Quotes & Sayings

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself." — Brian Tracy

No one can make you a victim but yourself. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth. — Bruno Bettelheim

Society, because it is composed of living humans, is organic and if healthy, supple. It is like a rubber band. As long as the groups that compose society are flexible and social and emotionally supporting, it serves its constituency well. It bends, weaves, twists, turns, and envelops everyone in diverse manners. If opposing forces become too locked into their polarized viewpoints, though, other things happen.

Like two grumpy siblings, they hold their views with anger or self-righteousness and utter vulgar and crass words, but it amounts to the same thing. The two groups pull on the rubber band and rigidly hold to their position without empathy.

The rubber band (society) grows taut and then eventually it snaps and collateral damage ensues and the proverbial baby is thrown out with the bath water. — Leviak B. Kelly

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with. — Talib Kweli

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. — Edward Abbey

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal ... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing ... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly ... so you can actually be free to say anything you want. — Allen Ginsberg

When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand. — Stephen King

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems. — Leonid Hurwicz

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage. — Ayelet Waldman