I'm not really silly enough to think that chocolate solves anything. But it calms me. It's a soothing assurance, that this hectic life I have worked myself into is also full of wonderful surprises and unexpected sweetness. It reminds me that a hefty ...
I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts...
Identifying Your Dream Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.
Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted." This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometime...
I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life...
He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad--too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.' ...
There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE...
Mr. Pink: Look, I ordered coffee. Now we've been here a long fucking time and she's only filled my cup three times. When I order coffee, I want it filled *six* times. Mr. Blonde: Six times. Well, what if she's too fucking busy? Mr. Pink: The words "t...
Stormtrooper: Let me see your identification. Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [with a small wave of his hand] You don't need to see his identification. Stormtrooper: We don't need to see his identification. Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: These aren't the droids you're look...
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Prayer's a very tricky business.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.
As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.
Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
