Top 100 Be A Pearl Quotes
#1. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived
Rumi
#2. A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
William Cowper
#3. Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.
Minnie Pearl
#4. When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo
#5. How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book.
Matthew Pearl
#6. No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis
#7. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
#8. There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
Joseph Hall
#9. Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
Pearl Zhu
#10. With increasing rate of changes, the organization needs to be adapted in such a way that it can respond effectively to the dynamic changes and to the variety in the environment.
Pearl Zhu
#11. I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#12. Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now.
Mindy Kaling
#14. thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes
Pearl S. Buck
#15. It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there is a string that ties us all together, invisible to the naked eye.
Gudjon Bergmann
#16. His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist - the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.
Pearl S. Buck
#17. Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
Peter S. Beagle
#18. Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ...
Pearl S. Buck
#19. Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand.
Rumi
#21. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
Yukio Mishima
#22. From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
Pearl Zhu
#23. It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
Pearl S. Buck
#24. Never judge a book by its cover, be the judge of what's inside. . .
Pearl
#25. To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.
Pearl Zhu
#26. How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.
Rumi
#27. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
Victor Hugo
#28. But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be ...
John Steinbeck
#29. The organization's competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.
Pearl Zhu
#30. I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone ... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
Matthew Pearl
#31. I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.
Pearl S. Buck
#32. CIOs may not be the subject matter expert of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment.
Pearl Zhu
#33. Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
Simone Weil
#34. Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#35. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
John Bunyan
#36. Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.
Pearl Zhu
#37. IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.
Pearl Zhu
#39. A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.
Pearl Zhu
#40. It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
Pearl S. Buck
#41. A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#42. To love, or to have loved, - this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment
Victor Hugo
#43. The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.
Pearl S. Buck
#44. Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
#45. Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.
Pearl Zhu
#46. Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
Pearl S. Buck
#47. Culture should be a business 'app,' everyone can apply it daily.
Pearl Zhu
#48. Every measure selected should be part of a link of cause-and-effect relationships, and ultimately affect the growth and long-term perspectives of the organization.
Pearl Zhu
#49. Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#50. A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
Richard Sibbes
#51. Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#52. Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
Pearl S. Buck
#53. Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#54. Both men knew the only thing more valuable than a favor well done was a secret well kept. This had the potential to be both.
Pearl Cleage
#55. I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
Ellie Goulding
#56. ...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
Pearl Cleage
#58. Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.
Pearl Zhu
#59. There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
Glen Campbell
#60. A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody's radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.
James Patterson
#61. There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
Andrea Pirlo
#62. Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.
Pearl Zhu
#63. When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.
Pearl S. Buck
#64. Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right "tipping point.
Pearl Zhu
#65. There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.
Angelica Hopes
#66. They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.
Beth Hoffman
#67. You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.
Pearl Zhu
#68. You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.
Pearl S. Buck
#69. One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
L. Ron Hubbard
#70. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream
whatever that dream might be.
Pearl S. Buck
#71. Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
Pearl S. Buck
#72. A CIO needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative.
Pearl Zhu
#73. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!
Wally Pleasant
#74. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
Pearl S. Buck
#75. It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.
Pearl Cleage
#76. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
Pearl S. Buck
#77. I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
Thom Yorke
#78. Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.
Nancy Pearl
#79. The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack,
Leon Panetta
#80. When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#81. Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?
Gail Dayton
#82. You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.
Pearl Cleage
#83. Vision is not fiction; fiction could be a pure imagination; vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.
Pearl Zhu
#84. Every Friendship in my life is as a Gift and have more value then every Pearl in this World, money is for to use, but a human in a Friendship is a treasure to take care and to be Proud, many go for money and never meet the value of life.
Jan Jansen
#85. Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.
Margaret Laurence
#86. Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey
#87. Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
Laurie Graham
#88. We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.
Newt Gingrich
#89. Because Library School will take up two whole years of my life, I have decided to keep a journal of events/feelings/reactions to it as long as I can stick it out. Judging from today, that might not be too long, but I will start with a reaction to yesterday so it will not be forgotten.
Pearl Cleage
#90. The vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.
Brian Stableford
#91. Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.
Pearl Zhu
#92. The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#93. An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)
Pearl S. Buck
#94. I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.
Minnie Pearl
#95. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#96. I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
Pearl S. Buck
#97. A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.
Pearl Zhu
#98. Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'
Minnie Pearl
#99. To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.
Pearl S. Buck
#100. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
Pearl Williams
