Author: Laurence

There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.

Margaet Atwood
The kindest person in the room is often the smartestJ.

B. Pritzker
The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Pierre de Courbertin
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway
Hunger is the handmaid of genius.

Mark Twain
The skills needed to lead a team are different to the skills needed to do the work of the team eg the best salesperson is not necessarily the best sales manager.
Polite persistence wears down resistance.

Taryn Brumfitt
It takes a long time to grow young.

Pablo Picasso
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower
In recognition of King Charles’ corenation this weekend… It is the second day of the Sydney [cricket] test. Australia is being completely hammered, and my informant is seated ten rows in front of the Barmy Army. After they had just finished a chant about ‘You all live in a convict colony’, the two guys behind him have this exchange. “Mate, why do you reskon these Poms insist on living in the past?” ”Mate, if you were a Pom, wouldn’t you want to live in the past?”

Peter FitzSimons(Gotta Love This Country)