"I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes."

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Source : Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

Brian Roberts

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“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”
“Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.”
“So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.”
“Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?”
“Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.”

Source : Jim Cymbala (2008). “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, p.146, Zondervan
“The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.”
“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
“I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.”

Source : "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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