E'Jéi Osborne Quotes
The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.
The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.
I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.
Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.
I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!
And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
