"During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'"

-- Mark Fletcher

#Team Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered”

Source : Sir Gavin De Beer (1971). “Homology: An Unsolved Problem”
“Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.”
“When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.”
“Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.”
“I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.”
“LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.”
“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House
“I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.”

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