“This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“Aplinkiniais keliais vaikšto tie, kurie slapstosi. Tu neturi ko slėpti. Įsikalk tai į galvą. Tu turi teisę ateiti ir išeiti, kada man patinka”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“Vazduh izmedju njih je bio fosforescentan.”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“Kada dodje, imaće lice tudjina da bi se sakrio od mene.”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
Herbjørg Wassmo
Born place: in Myre, Norway
Born date November 6, 1942
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“Consider, for example, IBM’s decision to outsource the microprocessor for its PC business to Intel, and its operating system to Microsoft. IBM made these decisions in the early 1980s in order to focus on what it did best—designing, assembling, and marketing computer systems. Given its history, these choices made perfect sense. Component suppliers to IBM historically had lived a miserable, profit-free existence, and the business press widely praised IBM’s decision to out-source these components of its PC. It dramatically reduced the cost and time required for development and launch. And yet in the process of outsourcing what it did not perceive to be core to the new business, IBM put into business the two companies that subsequently captured most of the profit in the industry. How could IBM have known in advance that such a sensible decision would prove so costly? More broadly, how can any executive who is launching a new-growth business, as IBM was doing with its PC division in the early 1980s, know which value-added activities are those in which future competence needs to be mastered and kept inside? 2”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Friendship, true friendship is a curious dance. Why does one recognize and embrace one soul and yet not another. What is that? That something unspoken. Perhaps it is a long ago remembrance of another time, another place, those same familiar eyes shining out. Always we are searching for those recognizable eyes…so that we might at last be recognized ourselves.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
“Sleep and cry and rest no more For you have lived many storms before Run or crawl and find the sea Dive in the pleasure Let it set you free.”
― Irum Zahra, quote from Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
“Бывает, нападет хандра — кажется, так и помрешь одинокой; ни в настоящем, ни в будущем ничего хорошего не светит. Оглядываясь на прожитые годы, вспоминаешь только ошибки и неудачи, калеча тем самым и прошлое. Но особенно неприятно то, что, зная врага в лицо, ты не в силах ничего с ним поделать.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Eleanor Rigby
“deal. Mrs. B belongs in the Guinness Book of World Records on many counts. Signing a non-compete at 99 merely adds one more.”
― Warren Buffett, quote from Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
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