Quotes of: New-skills Keyword

We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

The Lords and the New Creatures

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer

The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.

Living Mission: The Vision and Voices of New Friars

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

The Last Stand of the New York Institute

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

The life and writings of Thomas Paine

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

Leaders' Watchwords

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

Miracles for Breakfast: A Startling New Approach to Raising Children

Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were.

Sweet Beams: Inspiring everyone who lives under a new roof!

On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.

Selected Stories

A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain

Towards a New Architecture

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.

Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?

Twenties Girl

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

Poems New and Collected

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

Persuasion