Anne Stevens quotes

“We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.”
-- Anne Stevens

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“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)”
-- Anne Stevens

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“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”

“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”

“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”

Source : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”

“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”

“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan