Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Life
  • May
  • Yourself

• Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Great
  • Boat

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Song
  • Red
  • Ugly

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Business
  • Think
  • Change

• The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Why
  • Black

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Small
  • Small Things

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• All my movies are achingly personal.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Personal

• Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

  

  Randy West
  • Money
  • Day
  • Serious

• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Feel
  • Sweet

• Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.

  

  John Cho
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg