Commending Someone For A Job Quotes & Sayings

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. — Len Wein

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra ... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ... — Vladimir Nabokov

There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson. — Jack Lewis Baillot

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues. — Ian Gillan

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending. — Sloane Crosley

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves. — Napoleon Hill

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think. — Martin Burns

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up! — Darren Boyd

An egg, through patience, increases value when it becomes a chick. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? — Jim Cymbala

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. — Charles De Gaulle

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature. — Marcus Aurelius

It isn't," I said. "However, it is a fact that whether one falls into a little swimming pool or into the middle of the biggest sea, one nevertheless swims all the time."
"Most certainly."
"Then we too must swim and try to save ourselves from the argument, hoping that some dolphin might take us on his back or for some other unusual rescue. — Plato

Every morning, the Omori POWs were assembled and ordered to call out their number in Japanese. After November 1, 1944, the man assigned number twenty-nine would sing out "Niju ku!" at the top of his lungs. — Laura Hillenbrand