John L. Flannery Quotes
The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
Quotes to Explore
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.
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I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
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The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
