"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

--

Laurence J. Peter

#Beauty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Work Quotes

“Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.”
“I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.”

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.”
“I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.”
“The RÃ©gime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.”
“Not everything in my life has been pretty.”
“Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.”

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