Abanto Ciervana Quotes

#1. Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

Sydney Schanberg

#2. The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

William Safire

#3. How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate.

Auren Hoffman

#4. I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

F. Sionil Jose

#5. The writer's life is a sacred wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Susan George

#7. The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'

Stacy Schiff

#9. As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Diane Glancy

#11. Futilitarianism.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational.

Paul Gibbons

#13. Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Judge Mills Lane

#14. In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

Roger Staubach

#15. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.

Patrick Rothfuss