Deftness Quotes

#1. foundations, laid in the dark but well laid. On these, methodically and carefully but with a deftness and certainty that seemed nothing of his own but a knowledge working through him, using him as its vehicle, he built up the beautiful steadfast structure of the Principles of Simultaneity. Takver,

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

Mary Jo Putney

#3. You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.

Frank Sonnenberg

#4. You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable storytelling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. A great book is like great evil.

Callimachus

#6. We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#7. I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

Anthony Goldbloom

#8. I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#9. Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

Marilyn Ferguson

#11. Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

John Jantsch

#12. When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Chip Conley

#13. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins

#14. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.

Francois Lelord