Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.
My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.
The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the p...
It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a ...
"I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place," says the widow.
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place.
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
Tie up the hen that eats at your place and lays eggs elsewhere.
One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle of gin sitting huddled over the two-bar electric fire and...
If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
