Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.


Mark V. Hurd

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V. S. NAIPAUL
Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB
I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
V. E. SCHWAB
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
V. E. SCHWAB
I like to play with tropes.
V. E. SCHWAB
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging fro...
V. E. SCHWAB
I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ...
V. E. SCHWAB
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enou...
V. E. SCHWAB
I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB
It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB
It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB
I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB
So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V
Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS
The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS
There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN
Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS
The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL
I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS
There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU
How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V
It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER
Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS