I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and…

“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its proper context.…

— Vito Tanzi

As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic…

— Robert D. Maurer

“Hopscotch is played with a pebble that you move with the tip of your toe. The things you need : a sidewalk, a pebble,…

— Julio Cortázar

“Back the, my life was mostly pieces-tire swings and lemonade, dogwood petals drifting down and going brown in the grass. Cotton dresses, bedsheets flapping…

— Brenna Yovanoff

The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or…

— Marya Hornbacher

“That's how it is, Rocamadour: in Paris we're like fungus, we grow on the railings of staircases, in dark rooms with greasy smells, where…

— Julio Cortázar

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time…

— Shane Koyczan

You are so big, you plays hopscotch like, 'Texas...Alabama...North Carolina...Pennsylvania...'

— Anonymous

“Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a nymphet was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village…

— Linda Medley

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall…

— Carl Sagan

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when…

— Ani DiFranco

If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also…

— Martin Zwilling

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion… They begin haphazard.

— Christopher Morley

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton