Decembers Zodiac Quotes & Sayings

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business. — Hank Williams III

A mask is not to disguise who you are but to show who you really are. — Chloe Thurlow

transformational leaders support followers by enhancing their confidence and self-efficacy to achieve an idealized state. By appealing to followers' deeply held beliefs, transformational leadership has been shown to impact follower core-self evaluations, which, in turn, affect follower motivation and behavior on the job — Matthew J Grawitch

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire. — Malik Yoba

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. — Robert M. Pirsig

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan] — Gerald R. Ford

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings? — Osamu Dazai

But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. It's about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It's about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it. The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. And a young man [one of Vance's co-workers] with every reason to work - a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way - carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America. — J.D. Vance

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that. — Jazmine Sullivan

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. — Grenville Kleiser

Sure. What's the worst that could happen."
Twenty minutes later, we had our answer. "I can't frecking believe this."
I cringed. "I'm so sorry."
"I'm bald!" Giguhl continued. "I look like a freak."
"It's not that bad," I said. But it was. Oh, my lord was it bad. I'd never seen an uglier cat in my entire life. — Jaye Wells

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. — Dustin Penner

What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts.
[ ... ] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty, not my parents, but these tales which promised that sleeping in the snow never caused pneumonia, that bread never turned stale, that trees blossomed out of season, that dragons could be killed with courage, that intense wishing would be followed immediately by fulfillment of the wish. Intrepid wishing, said the fairytales, was more effective than labor. The smoke issuing from Aladdin's lamp was my first smokescreen, and the lies learned from fairytales were my first perjuries. Let us say I had perverted tendencies: I believed everything I read. — Anais Nin

For an image of life and death
consider ice and water
water freezes into ice
ice melts back into water
what dies must live again
what lives is bound to die
ice and water don't harm each other
both life and death are fine.. — Han-shan