Elphinstone High School Quotes & Sayings

In many ways, the U.S. bureaucracy has moved away from the Weberian ideal of an energetic and efficient organization staffed by people chosen for their ability and technical knowledge. The system as a whole is less merit-based: rather than coming from top schools, 45 percent of recent new hires to the federal service are veterans, as mandated by Congress. And a number of surveys of the federal work force paint a depressing picture. According to the scholar Paul Light, "Federal employees appear to be more motivated by compensation than mission, ensnared in careers that cannot compete with business and nonprofits, troubled by the lack of resources to do their jobs, dissatisfied with the rewards for a job well done and the lack of consequences for a job done poorly, and unwilling to trust their own organizations. — Anonymous

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex. — Siobhan Fahey

Everyday is an atheist holiday. — Penn Jillette

My soul,
how will I recognize you if we meet? — Anne Stevenson

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. — Rupert Sheldrake

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far. — Shaun White

...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect. — Immanuel Kant