Akopian Smith Quotes

#1. My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

Jami Attenberg

#2. It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step.

Vince Poscente

#3. Your father ... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

Susan Cooper

#4. Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5. If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

Claudia Jones

#6. Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

Peter Thiel

#7. Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

Jamie Zawinski

#8. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

#9. He was not the king they expected.

N. T. Wright

#10. Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults, and so I'd like to try a book for children. And I tell them that when they have learned enough to write for an adult perhaps a child will listen to them.

Mabel Robinson

#11. To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization. If you do the right things, then your vision, your expertise, and your drive can propel you forward and serve as seed crystals.

Michael D. Watkins

#12. The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Amelia Barr

#13. If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Eric Gill

#14. By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

Gerald Jonas