Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Nicky Verd

Quote by Nicky Verd

Work

Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Nicky Verd

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Nicky Verd. more

You May Also Like

“Society puts too much emphasis on academic excellence forgetting there’s a real world outside the classroom. Measuring intelligence through ‘one size fits all’ is limiting and sometimes those who fall by the wayside can be the most important of them all”

“When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”

“Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going traveling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve and a half years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special (as someone must have done for us when we were small, if only occasionally, or we would never had the strength to make it this far).”