"We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end."

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Lane Kirkland

#Leadership Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Staff Quotes

“On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.”
“I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.”
“My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.”
“The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.”

Source : Source: www.aboutfilm.com
“You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.”

Source : "Protecting the office from cyber-attack", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2004.
“A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"”
“You find what you are best at and stick to it. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.”
“The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.”

Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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