"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Self Quotes #Looks Quotes #Backwards Quotes

“Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.”
“I will be small in small things, great among great.”
“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.”
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
“I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.”
“I don't want to be so confident in myself.”
“Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.”

Source : "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".

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