Deep Set Sofas Quotes & Sayings

Chance favors the prepared mind. — Richard Preston

The relationship between nurturance and moral self-interest can be seen most clearly in nurturant forms of business practice. It involves the humane treatment of employees, the creation of a safe and humane workplace, social and ecological responsibility, fairness in hiring and promotion, the building of a work community, the development of excellent communication between employees and management and between the company and its customers, opportunities for employee self-development, a positive role in the larger community, scrupulous honesty, a regard for one's customers and for the public, and excellent customer service. Policies such as these have increased the productivity and success of many businesses. They are models of how Nurturant Parent morality can function to help businesses be successful and to allow owners, investors, and employees to seek their self-interest within this moral system. Moral — George Lakoff

The world is not changing if you don't shoulder the burden of responsibility. — Ai Weiwei

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke. — Marcia Gay Harden

The doctrines known as Calvinism are not something that emerged late in church history, but rather are that which takes its origins in the teachings of Jesus.1 - James Montgomery Boice — Steven J. Lawson

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it. — Alex Rodriguez

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse? — William Lucking

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. — Thomas Friedman

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force ... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. — Hypatia

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. — Herbert Marcuse

Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Close your eyes and breathe in, concentrate on the breath and heart beat, feel that? You are a living being capable of changing your life and possibly the lives around you, you do not merely exist, your actions affect you and others. Act with love. — Hamza Wolf