Henry Segerstrom Quotes

#1. The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.

Rose Tremain

#2. I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

Warren Ellis

#3. The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Edward Abbey

#4. The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

Peter Drucker

#5. Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. The most critical are not the successful, nor the complete failures, but those who might have achieved something of worth, save for small but crucial faults within themselves, for they can seldom bear the thought of how close they came to greatness.

Anonymous

#7. Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Phillips Brooks

#8. Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night.

Scott Lynch

#9. If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a more sympathetic understanding of the nation's alienated citizens in the South.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

E. Nesbit

#11. I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine ... he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Albert Schweitzer

#12. Sometimes it is hell, trying to get to heaven.

The Undertaker

#13. I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

#14. I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

Hale Appleman