Xanana Timor Quotes

#1. Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out - I just try to embrace the better ideas that come along as my fingers are flying around the keyboard mid-draft!

Ransom Riggs

#2. Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#4. After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#5. I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

Natalie Massenet

#6. Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

Lurlene McDaniel

#7. Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Colin Powell

#8. Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action.

Marty Rubin

#9. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens