Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
HENRY KISSINGERThough we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE -
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there’s something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That’s not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.
BRIAN EVENSON -
At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
BILL BAILEY -
I don’t remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
AARON SPELLING -
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
I believe in the person I want to become.
LANA DEL REY -
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
I’m going to be on a mission. I’ve handled my personal vendettas and handled them well.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL -
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
JANE FONDA -
What I don’t do – and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids – is that I don’t revel in the gory details.
ALAN GRATZ -
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS -
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
CESAR CHAVEZ -
You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.
DAVID GOGGINS -
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
JEFF BEZOZ