A Quotes
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“A good poem or poet
is like a good cigar or a
good whiskey. Everyone
Has their own preferences.”
Source: OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE POEMS PARABLES R.M. ENGELHARDT
“A good poet feels what his community feels.
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.”
“A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.”
Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
“A good poet's made as well as born.”
Source: Masques at court. Epigrams. The forest. Underwoods, consisting of divers poems
“A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity.”
“A good politician always knew which way the winds were blowing: a better politician made the weather himself.”
Source: Takedown
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
“A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.”
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“As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five—the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit.”
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“You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. ”
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“Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.”
Source: The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies
“A good portion of my work with Tangerine Dream at the time involved film music, and I remember approaching it as any 23-year-old would - without much fear or respect. Also, Tangerine Dream was typically asked to deliver a monochromatic kind of score, the electronic-analog trademark sound that TD had become famous for following landmark films such as Sorcerer [Universal, 1977], Thief [MGM, 1981], and Risky Business [Warner Brothers, 1983].”
“A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.”
“A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.”
“A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were”
“A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3
“A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.”
“A good prayer is master of anothers purse.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A good preacher should have these properties and virtues:
1. Teach systematically
2. Have a ready wit
3. Be eloquent
4. Have a good voice
5. Have a good memory
6. Know when to make an end
7. Be sure of his doctrine
8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word
9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.”
“A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.”
“A good preview makes you can’t wait to see the whole movie.”
“A good preview makes you want to see the whole movie.”
“A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.”
Source: The education of a Christian prince
“A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes
“A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.”
“A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.”
“A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.”
“A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.”
Source: The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods
“A good process produces good results.”
“A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.”
“A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.”
“A good producer knows how to capture the best performances from musicians, create a cohesive sound, and make a record that sounds great on different playback systems. That’s really important with a band like Electrasy because they needed to transfer their raw, live power to radio, TV, and different formats.”
Source: Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers
“A good product can last forever.”
“A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.”
“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.”
“A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.”
“A good proof is one that makes us wiser.”
“A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.”
“A good proverb is often the marriage of a Truth to an Enchantment, where Humor is the groomsman and Irony the priest.”
Source: A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
“A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist will take non-traumatic events in your life and twist your narrative to both make them traumatic and connect them to your current problems. The problem is that good psychologists solve your issues while bad ones create dependency and thus recurring revenue streams.”
Source: The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“A good Public Relations agent can help you gain exposure and grow your popularity and often get you in the right places, but they cannot help those who refuse to birth new possibilities and move out of their comfort zones.”
“A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.”
“A good Purpose is not necessarily reached rather it is something that guides”
“A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.”
“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.”
“A good question has many answers.”
“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.”
“A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!”
“A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!”
“A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!”