Gracious Professionalism Quotes

#1. Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Paul McCartney

#2. I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

Susan Hill

#3. The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

Richard Shweder

#4. It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

Confucius

#5. I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

Kathryn Lasky

#6. I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really yours, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

Nathaniel Branden

#9. I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.

Libba Bray

#10. Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Michael Morpurgo

#11. When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Carl Lewis

#12. The place that, even disembodied, her spirit recognized because it had drawn her to it for so many years. She entered the House of Night

P.C. Cast

#13. Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

W. H. Auden