"Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield."

-- Christopher Rice

#Memories Quotes #Cities Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.”

Source : Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper
“When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.”
“A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”
“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
“Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.”
“I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.”
“If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.”
“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”

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