Eyvind Johnson Quotes
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
Eyvind Johnson
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I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.
Whitney Houston
You can't win what you don't fight for.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
Charles Handy
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
Robert Pozen
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
E. A. Bucchianeri
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
Sophocles
The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.
Vladimir Lenin
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
Albert Einstein
There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
Socrates
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
Norodom Sihamoni
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
Eugene Delacroix