George R. R. Martin Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
D. B. Weiss -
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards -
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
Dan Buettner -
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson -
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
A. N. Wilson
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
Walter Pater -
I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
Olivia Wilde -
Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
Mahershala Ali -
'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.
Carly Craig -
Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
Walker Percy -
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Vanity -
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.
Elie Wiesel -
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
Clayton Christensen -
When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
Clare Balding -
When I'm out for a walk or out shopping, then I'll probably have 20 different conversations a day with people about Blackburn Rovers. You can't really escape from it. I am still really proud to come from Blackburn. It is a place I still hold very dear to my heart, which is why I want to stay here.
David Dunn
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the urgent crowds out the essential.
Nan Fairbrother -
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. Edwards Deming -
You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.
Anthony Robbins -
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
Quintus Curtius Rufus -
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha -
I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
George R. R. Martin