"I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up."

-- David Grossman

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.”

Source : "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.”
“I'd love to design a school.”
“Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.”
“I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.”
“Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it”
“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.”
“I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.”

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