Disqualifications For Stimulus Quotes & Sayings

I feel very lucky that I make a living doing what I always wanted to do. — Lucy Punch

Don't improve it into a flop! — Samuel Goldwyn

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card. — Warren Farrell

She knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind. — Charles Bukowski

The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recollection, in which remembrance is the woof and forgetting the warp, a counterpart to Penelope's work rather than its likeness? For here the day unravels what the night has woven. When we awake each morning, we hold in our hands, usually weakly and loosely, but a few fringes of the tapestry of a lived life, as loomed for us by forgetting. However, with our purposeful activity and, even more, our purposive remembering each day unravels the web and the ornaments of forgetting. — Walter Benjamin

I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again. — Cheryl Strayed

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings. — John P. Kotter

I am skeptical that distance education based on asynchronous Internet technologies (i.e., prerecorded video, online forums, and email) is a substitute for live classroom discussion and other on-campus interaction. Distance education students can't raise their hands to ask instructors questions or participate in discussions, and it's difficult or impossible for them to take advantage of faculty office hours. Teaching assistants don't always respond to email, and online class discussion boards can be neglected by students and faculty alike. In this sense, the "process of dialogue" is actually limited by technology. — Ian Lamont

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner. — Alain De Botton

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. — John Osborne

Shadowy material resides inside each one of us, but the man who is willing to face his own capacity for darkness will discover his deepest inner goodness and the presence of the divine within him. Some men never discover the divine presence within because they can't bring themselves to face their demons. Don't try to engineer this process or manufacture any angels. It will be done to you; just do not hate or fear the falling. — Richard Rohr

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will. — Richard Dawkins