Erichson Civ Quotes & Sayings

Call it fate, inevitability, whatever; right now, I knew that I was exactly where I was supposed to be, and my soul felt like it took in a deep breath to remember the moment. — Jeaniene Frost

Life is a sparring partner;
adversity is its gloves.
Life is an opponent;
adversity is its blows. — Matshona Dhliwayo

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time. — Shakti Gawain

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft — Seth Godin

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing. — Jay Baer

Also, you may want to consider having each potential fresh meat fill out a questionnaire to consider their commitment prior to accepting them into your training program. Sample questions may include: 1. Have you ever participated in a team sport? 2. Why do you want to train in roller derby? 3. Do you have aspirations to join a team? 4. Can you attend x% of the following practice schedule (list dates/locations/times)? 5. Will you be committed to personal and athletic growth within your training? 6. Will you be committed to pushing yourself when training gets tough? 7. Can you be comfortable with failing your way to success? — Punchy O'Guts

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree. — Giorgio Morandi

Sometimes, none of us can predict life's outcomes. That doesn't mean we stop living or doing what we know in our hearts is the right thing. — Colleen Charles

Success is total self-acceptance ... — Viktor E. Frankl

You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist? — Michael Buckley

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. — Gillian Flynn

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll! — James Nesbitt

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up — Lenny Bruce

I am not a lovelorn little girl, constantly searching for her fairy story. — Heather Lyons

She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange. — Emily Croy Barker