#People Quotes #Quality Quotes #Use Quotes
“I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's similar to speaking about literature. I like it, and then I don't like it. It has such an inherent vein of pretention, because you're not speaking about real things. There's a literary pretentiousness made of speaking and spending so much time on unreal persons. And it seems, now, impossible to create an unpretentious, totally organic character.”
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“Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.”
“Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.”
“The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.”
“If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.”
“Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others”
“Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.”
“But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.”
Arie de Geus
Betty Sue Flowers Professor
David Cooperrider Professor
Margaret J. Wheatley Writer
Otto Scharmer
Peter Senge Author
Ricardo Semler Fictioneer
Robert K. Greenleaf
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Executive
