“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.”
Joe DiMaggio
“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”
Jacques Barzun
“[Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed.] Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, ... I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”
Celso Amorim
“It seems to me we've almost reached the stage where no matter what he says is probably going to be viewed positively,”
John Manley
“The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.”
Cyril Connolly
“Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.”
W. Edwards Deming
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October”
Nathaniel Hawthorne