Disconnecting From Work Quotes & Sayings

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. — Mason Cooley

Monaco is quite a specialist track, and it is very difficult to say if a car will be suited to it or not. It's bumpy on the straights, and it's a very low-grip surface. All these things mean that you never know what to expect. — Romain Grosjean

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. — Agatha Christie

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy. — Penn Jillette

You have learn to hire a management team, you have to learn how to manage You have to want success so badly that you learn how to manage. — Ron Conway

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. — Adlai E. Stevenson

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past. — Marc Almond

Whenever her father or grandmother asked her about pain, Marjorie would say she had never known it. As a young child, someone had told her that the scars her father wore on his face and her grandmother on her hands and feet were born of great pain. And because Marjorie had no scars that resembled those, she could never bring herself to complain of pain. Once, — Yaa Gyasi

Commitment is a thing of choice; not a thing of force. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it. — Nenia Campbell

I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!"
He nodded, "About you. — Abbi Glines

The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma - not as punishments for misdeeds or rewards for virtue (for there really is no "bad" or "good" karma), but as your own doing. For in this way you come to see that the real "you" includes both the controlled and the uncontrolled aspects of your experience. — Alan W. Watts

Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded! — Paul F. Kortepeter

Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it. — Gregoire Delacourt