Misuraca Vance Quotes

Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With ~ Ashlee Vance

It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three. ~ Jack Vance

As we talked, I noticed little quirks that few others would. He didn't want to share his milk shake, which ~ J.D. Vance

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church. ~ Vance Havner

I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better. ~ J.D. Vance

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. ~ Vance Havner

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity. ~ Vance Havner

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His! ~ Vance Havner

One of the real enemies of an addict is denial. ~ Barbara Vance

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians. ~ Vance Havner

Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it. ~ J.D. Vance

A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in. ~ Eric Vance Walton

We need to figure out how to launch multiple times a day," Musk said. "The thing that's important in the long run is establishing a self-sustaining base on Mars. In order for that to work - in order to have a self-sustaining city on Mars - there would need to be millions of tons of equipment and probably millions of people. So how many launches is that? Well, if you send up 100 people at a time, which is a lot to go on such a long journey, you'd need to do 10,000 flights to get to a million people. So 10,000 flights over what period of time? Given that you can only really depart for Mars once every two years, that means you would need like forty or fifty years. ~ Ashlee Vance

She loathed disloyalty, and there was no greater disloyalty than class betrayal. ~ J.D. Vance

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. ~ Vance Havner

The world now lacks a " Sir Pom-pom", with all his funny ways! I wonder where he is now? Or is he anywhere at all? Can someone be nowhere? ~ Jack Vance

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live. ~ Vance Havner

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world. ~ Vance Havner

I never worked in an office in my life. ~ Jack Vance

You can't just cast aside family members because they seem uninterested in you. You've got to make the effort, because they're family. ~ J.D. Vance

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty. ~ Jack Vance

For my entire life, I had oscillated between fear at my worst moments and a sense of safety and stability at my best. I was either being chased by the bad terminator or protected by the good one. But I had never felt empowered - never believed that I had the ability and the responsibility to care for those I loved. Mamaw could preach about responsibility and hard work, about making something of myself and not making excuses. No pep talk or speech could show me how it felt to transition from seeking shelter to providing it. I had to learn that for myself, and once I did, there was no going back. Mamaw's ~ J.D. Vance

Page holds Musk up as a model he wishes others would emulate - a figure that should be replicated during a time in which the businessmen and politicians have fixated on short-term, inconsequential goals. "I don't think we're doing a good job as a society deciding what things are really important to do," Page said. "I think like we're just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You should have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. I don't think most people are doing that, and it's a big problem. Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you're able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that's really an important thing for the world. That's how we make progress. ~ Ashlee Vance

Pajamas? Poor people don't wear pajamas. We fall asleep in our underwear or blue jeans. To this day, I find the very notion of pajamas an unnecessary elite indulgence, like caviar or electric ice cube makers. ~ J.D. Vance

I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script. ~ James Vance

For there are no villains in this story. ~ J.D. Vance

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead. ~ Edmund Vance Cooke

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life. ~ Jack Vance

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded. ~ Vance Havner

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself. ~ Vance Joy

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. ~ Jack Vance

People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We
simply need to see that these things are not just some fanciful
dream from a song but are a promised future reality. ~ Vance C. Kessler

Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall ~ J.D. Vance

I'm like an abused puppy, so desperate for attention that it's almost a surprise when I get belted in the gut.
Again. ~ Talia Vance

If we don't come apart; we will come apart. ~ Vance Havner

During my last year of high school, I tried out for the varsity golf team. For about a year, I'd taken golf lessons from an old golf pro. ~ J.D. Vance

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. ~ Jack Vance

You don't buy poetry. (Neither do I.)
Why?
You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spend
Editions de luxe on a thirsty friend.
You can buy any one of the poetry bunch
For the price you pay for a business lunch.
Don't you suppose that a hungry head,
Like an empty stomach, ought to be fed?
Looking into myself, I find this true, So I hardly can figure it false in you. ~ Edmund Vance Cooke

What do you think you're doing?" ... "What does it look like, Blake? I'm obviously having wild sex on a cement bench with my best friend's boyfriend fifteen feet from a yard full of people. ~ Talia Vance

In the field of marketing ... the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling ... of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard. ~ Vance Packard

You didn't strike me as stupid, but I guess first impressions are deceiving. ~ Talia Vance

It's about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it. ~ J.D. Vance

Either we fix [the marriage] today, or I will divorce you tomorrow. ~ Ashlee Vance

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl. ~ Jack Vance

You can see Musk's embrace of the car as lifestyle in Tesla's abandonment of model years. Tesla does not designate cars as being 2014s or 2015s, and it also doesn't have "all the 2014s in stock must go, go, go and make room for the new cars" sales. It produces the best Model S it can at the time, and that's what the customer receives. This means that Tesla does not develop and hold on to a bunch of new features over the course of the year and then unleash them in a new model all at once. It adds features one by one to the manufacturing line when they're ready. Some customers may be frustrated to miss out on a feature here and there. Tesla, however, manages to deliver most of the upgrades as software updates that everyone gets, providing current Model S owners with pleasant surprises. ~ Ashlee Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~ Courtney B. Vance