Thomas Barnardo Quotes

#1. Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard ... maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

Sam Altman

#2. Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

#3. Impulse buying really is good for the soul.

Lacey London

#4. I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

Kim Harrison

#6. If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

Eva Burrows

#7. I looked over. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to find the homeless guy from the rail yard sitting in the shotgun seat. His jeans were so worn out they were almost white. His coat was ripped, with stuffing coming out. He looked kind of like a teddy bear that had been run over by a truck.

Rick Riordan

#8. No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Russell Simmons

#9. Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Thomas John Barnardo

#10. The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

Michaelangelo

#11. The only magazines I read are car magazines.

Simon Cowell

#12. An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.

David Bergen

#13. The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

Thomas John Barnardo

#14. Kissing is much easier than smoking,

Kiernan Shipka

#15. As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths.

Haruki Murakami

#16. I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Jodie Foster

#17. The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made. It may have been. ("Horror: A True Tale")

John Berwick Harwood

#18. There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Thomas John Barnardo