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“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

Ideas Would Be Asks Opportunity Born Half Company Baby Fool Needed Promise Foolish Make Sense Fulfillment Damn Executives Innovative Immature

Author:Peter Drucker

“In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.”

People Years Art Waiting Realizing Half Movement Promise Happenings Extraordinary Dozen Always Waiting

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.”

Seems Desire Half Promise Smile Gestures Reluctance

Author:Mason Cooley

“Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.”

People War Action Causes Justice Half Promise Worthy Defeated Behalf

Author:John Howard

“Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.”

Half Promise Brown Abolish

Author:William Hague

“Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.”

Knows Way Stories Asks Half Promise Rivers Agree Do You Know Drowning Shantaram Frogs Half Way Scorpions

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.”

Firsts Half Promise

Author:Bob Buford

“Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.”

Has Beens Half Promise Resources Globes Suppressing

Author:Sally Kohn

“Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?”

Ifs Knows Should Said Hands Bigs Lasts Night Speak Voice Half Cutting Promise Lows Gun Rivers Ears Intense Terrified Magician Last Night Shaking Messengers Interrupted

Book:The Demon's Lexicon

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”

“"I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that won’t be half as much fun as this is…" His hand slid down my side and over my hip, and my heart beat faster.”

Ifs Want Looks Heart Hands Fun Sides Half Roles My Heart Promise Beats Conscience Hips Faster Ethical Elsewhere I Promise Heart Beat

Author:Rachel Vincent