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ivory-tower mud towers
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. Al Ries
ivory-tower important towers
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory Benoit Mandelbrot
ivory-tower want towers
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Billie Joe Armstrong
ivory-tower towers needs
Even ivory towers need central heating. Breyten Breytenbach
ivory-tower games ideas
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. Alberto Manguel
ivory-tower voice differences
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time. Chuck Jones
ivory-tower icons suffering
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him. Joni Eareckson Tada
ivory-tower racism towers
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we? John Mellencamp
ivory-tower towers poet
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. Gerard De Nerval
towers world bells
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. Earl Warren
towers quarters century
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century. Anthony Trollope
towers
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. Dennis Farina
towers
Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. Philippe Petit
towers saudi-arabia kingdoms
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. Al-Waleed bin Talal
towers want
Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him. Clive James
towers looks sandwiches
I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. Danny Devito
towers want sometimes
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? J. R. R. Tolkien
towers building
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. Harry Seidler
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. Edward Hirsch