O. Henry Quotes

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

I beg young people to travel.

Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.