Pruning Bible Quotes

#1. There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#2. When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Diogenes Laertius

#3. There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.

Billy Porter

#4. I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

Shawn Fanning

#5. a mixed blessing, like the Star Wars prequels.

Dale E. Basye

#6. The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

Carol Loomis

#7. Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Clay Shirky

#8. Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Jasper Johns

#9. I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

Anne Roiphe

#10. Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Henry Knox

#11. Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

Madonna Ciccone

#12. Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.

Ellen G. White