Cliche Management Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away. — Alexander McCall Smith

I believe that when a loved one has dementia, you experience many layers of grief.

The first wave of grief comes with the diagnosis. The realisation that the person who has supported you all your life, will no longer be able to do so, no matter how hard they try.

Grief the first time they struggle to remember your name or your relationship to each other.

Grief when you have to accept that you can no longer keep them at home.

Grief as they lose the ability to communicate, as another piece of the jigsaw is lost.

Grief every time they are afraid, agitated or confused. So much grief you don't think you can cope with anymore.

And then the overwhelming tidal wave of grief when they pass, when you would give anything to go back to the first wave of grief. — Emma Haslegrave

I'm not that hard to get to know, really." He flashed me a quick smile. "But you ... I think you've made an art form out of deflection and self-possession. — Samantha Young

We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.. — James Packer

To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202) — Bill Gaultiere

A fool's errand, Little One. If you waited until all my wounds were healed, you would be here forever. — Tiffany Reisz

At some point in an unimaginably distant past some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. — Bill Bryson

He hath eaten me out of house and home. — William Shakespeare

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough. — Steven Sinofsky

Picture Bigfoot with tits, dude ... she was fuckin' grisly. — Jenn Cooksey

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out! — Matthew Goode

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Make sickness itself a prayer. — Saint Francis De Sales

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. — H.G.Wells