Acuity Brands Quotes & Sayings

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise. — Diane Meier

And maybe Bob-with-the-Hawaiian-shirt was right. Maybe it was cool being on a planet on the far side of the known galaxy. And maybe it was even cooler escaping and getting home again. But the coolest thing of all was having my best friend back. — Mark Haddon

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself. — Dylan Moran

Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush
and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can. — Polly Berrien Berends

Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn't say a word to each other. We'd already said them all, in better times and in better places. — Craig Lancaster

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. — Anais Nin

I swear to God, if GreatReads doesn't stop sending me these notification emails...how many times do I have to turn them off? — Melanie Marchande

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone. — Jeanette Winterson

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am saying to you that after a battle each soldier will have different stories to tell, vastly different stories, and that when a was is ended it is as if there have been a million wars, or as many wars as there were soldiers. — Tim O'Brien

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me. — Bryan Ferry

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss. — Mireille Guiliano

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page. — George R R Martin

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. — Francois Duvalier

Make a list of your key people and write down what you perceive as their primary value to the organization. Having done that, evaluate their job descriptions, asking yourself this question: "How can I free up more of their time to do the things that add the most value to this organization?" Encourage your staff to rewrite their current job descriptions with the goal of refocusing their time on the things they do best. Lead your key people through a discussion of the principles discussed in these three chapters. Create opportunities for your staff to discuss ways to better leverage their abilities. — Andy Stanley

The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call. — Chuck Martin