Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. — David Maister Copy Share Image
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When Headmaster Conrady pointed out the white clapboard chapel, I wondered whether there might be at least one structure with a softer… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
“The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
“There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most… — John Tuley Copy Share Image
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
