139 quotes found
“Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.”
“Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!”
“Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.”
“One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.”
“Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.”
“People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.”
“One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosync...”
“Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.”
“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.”
“Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you questio...”
“A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.”
“If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people”
“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
“It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you dont yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.”
“Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, youre blindly sauntering along.”
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
“The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.”
“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with o...”
“The habit of mobility had become ingrained.”
“Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.”
