Gissing Group Quotes

#1. Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Robin S. Sharma

#2. I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#3. And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#4. Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.

Cyril Connolly

#5. Convince yourself that you can do it, and the rest of the world will automatically be convinced

Mayur Ramgir

#6. We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

Ann Patchett

#7. The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

Cy Twombly

#8. First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Stephen Greenblatt

#9. Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Donald Worster

#10. Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#11. Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

Hans Zimmer

#13. The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.

Chuck Todd