A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.”
“A good stallion woos his mare."...---
Being really well hung and turned on probably works in his favor," he added with a teasing smile.”
Source: Saddle Up
“A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.”
“A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.”
Source: jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
“A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.”
“A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.”
“A good story beats great information.”
“A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.”
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.”
“A good story has the power to bring us to tears, to make us laugh, and to fill us with emotion. We don't just listen - we live the story together.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.”
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.”
“A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”
“A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.”
“A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.”
“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“A good story is both one hundred percent true and one hundred percent false. A good story uses small lies to take a stab at piercing larger truths. An overstatement and understatement are part of writer’s craft; each standing alone is an untruth. An understatement might be used as an attempt at humor, just as an overstatement might be used to probe a truth that lies beyond the exact retelling of who, what, when, and where style employed in police report writing. Even writing biography, autobiography, memoir, and personal essays that studiously and relentless adheres to established facts can distort the truth. Faithful adherence to stringing rote facts together omits many aspects of both the subject and the operable social, cultural, and political environment that stages human interaction, contest, conflict, drama, and strife.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.”
Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition
“A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.”
“A ‘good story’ is one that makes room for us to step into it and take on a role that would not be afforded to us other than that granted us by the story. A ‘great story’ is when we embrace the invitation, step into the story, assume the role, and allow it to enrich our own story.”
“A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.”
“A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.”
“A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.”
“A good story needs only a good storyteller.”
“A good story never dies.”
“A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.”
“A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.”
“A good story should change the way you see the world.”
“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
“A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.”
“A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.”
“A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.”
Source: Captivated: The Donovan Legacy
“A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.”
“A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.”
“A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.”
“A good strategy focuses efforts on a target, and that focus can only be achieved by not diffusing energy in other directions - that is the meaning of Michael Porter's dictum of "choosing what not to do." At the same time, a good strategy chooses the right target to focus on, not wasting the focus of energy on a target that cannot be affected or that is unimportant - that is the meaning of Drucker's distinction between efficiency and effectiveness.”
“A good strategy is effective no matter what the opponent does.”
Source: Cold War II? China, America, Global Strategy, and the New Cold War
“A good strategy is not always successful, but even an "inappropriate" strategy may be an actual strategy. A "bad strategy" is one that doesn't even try to address an important challenge. Instead, it speaks of aspirations, visions of the future, lays out performance goals, or simply lists a bunch of unconnected actions.”
“A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!”
“A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A good student always loves his teacher.”
Source: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
“A good student is one who will teach you something.”
“A good style fits like a good costume.”
“A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.”
“A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.”
“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.”