Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.
Elizabeth Thornton
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
Iain Banks
Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?
Annie Proulx
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Lawyer
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
Claude Monet
If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.
Arthur Eddington
We flow, we descend, we turn . . . and the eternal dreamerMoves among us like light, like evening air . . .
Conrad Aiken
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.
Martin Jacques
When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.
Jesmyn Ward
At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
Sabine Baring-Gould
We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.
James Comey
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever before in history. So as a consequence, we are not creating jobs at the same pace that we need to.
Erik Brynjolfsson
To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.
Elizabeth Thornton
