Babbages Etc Quotes & Sayings

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp. — Eric Christian Olsen

I would never trust anyone who didn't get at least a little nervous on the cusp of doing something important to them in front of other people. — Gwenda Bond

I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do. — Jason Winston George

Over time, one of this engine's most potent impacts is in prioritizing investments for customer-driven growth by shifting the annual planning process. Instead of starting with the silos, leaders start with the customers' lives, identify priorities, and then determine collectively the investments to improve them to earn the right to growth. Without alignment among your executive team to regularly review the customer journey that this engine affords, investments are not fully optimized. Tactical actions are budgeted and implemented by silo, but complete customer experiences that drive growth are not improved. Rinse and repeat. — Jeanne Bliss

Hatred is inveterate anger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal. — Hugh MacLennan

Wilson argued that "the wealth of America" lay in its small businesses, its towns and villages. "Its vitality does not lie in New York, nor in Chicago," he asserted; "it will not be sapped by anything that happens in St. Louis. The vitality of America lies in the brains, the energies, the enterprise of the people throughout the land; in the efficiency of their factories and in the richness of the fields that stretch beyond the borders of the town. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless. — Norton Juster

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community. — Katie Finneran

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'. — Haruki Murakami

The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were. — Rosamund Hodge

You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something — Robin Williams

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. — Arthur Bremer

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty. — L. Frank Baum

I think most survivors transfer the shame of their experience into their present-day healing and become ashamed of themselves for needing the time and support — Jeanne McElvaney