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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. Lee Iacocca
Kingsley Amis quote: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. At the same time I am haunted by an oppressive consciousness of the little gratitude I really showed them while I was young. How many of them have said farewell to life without having made clear to them what it meant to me to receive from them so much kindness or so much care! Many a time have I, with a feeling of shame, said... Albert Schweitzer
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. Graham Greene
Bram Stoker quote: "We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor."
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. Bram Stoker
For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory. Arthur C. Clarke
John Cassavetes quote: "You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all."
You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. John Cassavetes
Believe me, the real romantic person is him who ain't done anything but imagine. If you have actually participated in disasters, like me, you get conservative. Thomas Berger
And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again. Suzanne Collins
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea. Mark Burnett
You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could produce one book that left someone with that kind of ferocious grievance. If you have read one of my books, you probably feel cheated out of however much money it might have cost you, and you'll certainly begrudge the time you wasted on it. But even at my most bullish and self-aggrandizing, I can't quite make myself believe that I've actually wrecked someone's life. Any documentary... Nick Hornby
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled..."
Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Research in this country is going down. Amar Bose
Peter Sellers quote: "When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get..."
When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it. Peter Sellers