Whorf Bargatze Quotes

#1. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.

Chila Woychik

#2. Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#4. If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

Samantha Bee

#5. If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

Dalai Lama

#6. It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Philip K. Dick

#7. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#8. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Gary Keller

#9. Just because that was the start of a thousand sentimental stories didn't mean that it didn't actually happen.

Iain M. Banks

#10. Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Adriana Trigiani

#11. The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Josh Radnor

#12. I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

Edwidge Danticat

#13. My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#15. In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

Gaston Bachelard