Collantes Burke Quotes

#1. It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Rewards can deliver a short-term boost - just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off - and, worse, can reduce a person's longer-term motivation to continue the project.

Daniel H. Pink

#3. The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

Alice Sebold

#5. If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

Delta Burke

#6. It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Charles Yu

#7. I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Vitruvius

#8. Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Evan Esar