Zen Philosopher Basho Quotes & Sayings

Past happiness augments present wretchedness. — Publilius Syrus

On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down. — Tom DeMarco

One prisoner of conscience is one too many. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Buster closed his eyes, held his breath, and, before he realized that the gun had been fired, a gust of heat and wind passed over him and deconstructed the beer can atop his head, the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new. — Kevin Wilson

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. — William Shakespeare

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. — Magdalen Nabb