Clever Monkey Sayings

#1. The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#2. And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

#3. In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.

Martin Garrix

#4. In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Evangeline Lilly

#5. It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Elizabeth Banks

#6. And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.

Milan Kundera

#7. Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Brenda Ueland

#8. They say when you touch the face of God through those you love, the joy of it is so great, it is filled with equal pain.

Kathleen Bittner Roth

#9. With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.

Brian A. McBride

#10. It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.

Scott Berkun

#11. Accounting is the language of business.

Warren Buffett

#12. The most serious political problem posed by filter bubbles is that they make it increasingly difficult to have a public argument.

Eli Pariser

#13. Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Warren G. Bennis

#14. A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Marie Rutkoski

#15. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.

Eowyn Ivey