Dt Niles Quotes

#1. Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. love, compassion, and forgiveness are capacities you have to actively engage because experiences will strip you of them if you aren't careful. I

Abby Fabiaschi

#3. There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. If you can't fix it, feature it.

Gregory J. Boyle

#5. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Andre Gide

#6. Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand ... had been at the center of everything.

Tea Obreht

#7. I come alive at night. I'm such a night owl.

Mpho Koaho

#8. I step through origins
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat:
the bog floor shakes,
water cheeps and lisps
as I walk down
rushes and heather.
I love this turf-face,
it's black incisions,
the cooped secrets
of process and ritual:
-Kinship

Seamus Heaney

#9. Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

John Mason Brown

#10. Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

Richard A. Proctor