Lickety Quotes

#1. Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Marisha Pessl

#2. It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Yukio Mishima

#3. I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

Afrojack

#4. The fuck," I mumbled, as I scrolled over more files.

Tiffany Rose

#5. When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Jello Biafra

#6. The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Edmund Leach

#7. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Laozi

#8. Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

Chris Colfer

#9. A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

Harvey MacKay

#10. When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Ayn Rand

#11. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel

#12. The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

Nicholas Carr

#13. I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

#14. I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Jose Saramago

#15. As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.

Alison Sweeney

#16. A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

John Leo