Quotes about circles
circles competence perimeter
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter. Warren Buffett
circles important term
The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
circles important different
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
circles ifs
If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do. William Blake
circles different goes-on
In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater. Wallace Shawn
circles darkness world
The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world. Tove Jansson
circles ears demand
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. Wilfred Burchett
circles feelings matter
No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist. Wilhelm Keitel
circles life-and-death hunters
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. Stephenie Meyer
circles progress use
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence. Gordon B. Hinckley
circles luxury stills
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown. Henry David Thoreau
circles literature careful
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle Jean Rostand
circles people film
I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave. Jacqueline Bisset
circles shapes ifs
I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape. Jerry Springer
circles bars opinion
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. Evelyn Waugh
circles vicious turns
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. Eugene Ionesco
circles may boundaries
We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle. Ernst Junger
circles tables comedy
We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. Howie Mandel
circles doubt
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it. Franz Kafka
circles passing evidence
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
circles passing-it passing
...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
circles pieces common-experience
It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right. Christopher Alexander
circles people trying
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. George Strait
circles ideas forever
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more. George Orwell
circles long people
If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance George Carlin
circles forever useless
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity. Fay Weldon
circles giving enemy
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems. Fatos Nano
circles medicine disease
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation. Francis Bacon
circles dark eyes instantly prone
I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident. Bridgit Mendler
circles double four
Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right.
circles excited hysterical run
It's hysterical to watch, as long as you're out of range, ... When they get excited they run around in circles doing one handstand after another.
circles financial hospital losing loss walking
It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital in a depression.
circles debated fed greenspan opposed though
It was not used this time, even though it was debated in Fed circles -- Greenspan opposed it.