A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn
James Agate
Rank is a great beautifier.
Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
Fred Allen
Most new jobs wont come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. Weve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Godfrey Harold Hardy
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjld
Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".
Francis Claud Cockburn
The poet never must lose despair.
Denise Levertov
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
John Constable
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
Jerry Brown
The mathematicians patterns, like the painters or the poets must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Godfrey Harold Hardy
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.
Elizabeth Hardwick