"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."

--

Hosea Ballou

#Experience Quotes #Tangible Quotes #Theory Quotes

“Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.”
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
“That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.”
“It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.”
“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.”

Source : Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon
“Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.”

Source : "Google buys Nest Labs for $3.2bn in bid for smart home-devices market" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.
“Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I might not wear chains or I may just wear a watch or I may not wear any jewelry at all or I may just go all out on an outfit or just rock some basic s*** just a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and ones. But, I still standout more than a lot of people in the room so I can't really describe it but I know from the outside looking in people can explain better than I can.”

Source : Source: thesource.com

You may also like: