#isa

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#competitors #corporate #demonstrate #disadvantage #distinct

Wherever art appears, life disappears. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#appears #disappears #life #wherever

Improvisation is terribly haphazard. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#improvisation #terribly

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise. ↗

— Gary Numan

#bit #dark #disappointment #expecting #get

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ↗

— George Bancroft

#disappointed #nine #out #person #ten

I can't envisage stopping writing. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#i #stopping #writing

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. ↗

— Tony Benn

#dangerous #disagrees #each #find #first

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#disaster #filled #hard #intent #losing