I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively “personal,” arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
B. H. LIDDELL HARTFar must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e’er lies.
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No coach is more important than the Team
BO SCHEMBECHLER -
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
WILL ROGERS -
Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.
BILLY GILMAN -
They probably would’ve had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.
ABIGAIL DISNEY -
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS -
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
BRUCE LEE -
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI -
Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
WATCHMAN NEE -
There’s a fine line between sanity and madness in being alive.
ANA SOULFUL -
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
I breathe him in so deep that when he is gone I exhale and taste him again.
NICOLE LYONS -
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
BERNARD MELTZER -
There are the people that are like, “I want it to sound like the last one.” You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
BEN GIBBARD -
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
JANE AUSTEN -
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. KING






