Charles Tyson Yerkes Quotes

#1. It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

Jackie Stewart

#2. most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

Alice Munro

#4. Deep play precedes deep work.

Jeremy Rifkin

#5. Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes - like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night
- little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

C.S. Lewis

#6. When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Robert Smith

#7. The royal pursuit is reverence of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Benazir Bhutto

#9. When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..

Paul Gallico

#10. People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

Teresa Amabile

#11. Let the clock and the earth do their own thing ... Let the comings and goings of life continue ... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

Ram Dass

#12. The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#13. I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson