Fassel Quotes & Sayings

The old saying has it that when we promote our best salesman and make him a manager, we ruin a good salesman and get a bad manager. But if we think about it, we see we have no choice but to promote the good salesman. Should our worst salesman get the job? When we promote our best, we are saying to our subordinates that performance is what counts. — Andrew S. Grove

Are you no afraid of God? I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. You — Cormac McCarthy

Essie Mae, close your eyes. Listen. Breathe. The quiet is where dreams are born. — Michelle Muriel

It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people. — Sherman Skolnick

I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile. — Liberace

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. — Maria Montessori

If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you are faced with yourself as you are and you find that you are empty, dull, stupid, ugly, guilty and anxious - a petty, shoddy, secondhand entity. Face the fact; look at it, do not run away from it. The moment you run away fear begins. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I need someone to talk to. Well, not exactly talk. I need someone to listen. — Cait Doolittle

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. — Tim Tebow

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra

Be quick, be quiet, and be on time. — Clarence L "Kelly" Johnson

Our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom. — Nicole Krauss

This book offers another, more serious alternative to material success. It's not so much an alternative as an expansion of the meaning of "success" to something larger than just getting a good job and staying out of trouble. And also something larger than mere freedom. It gives a positive goal to work toward that does not confine. — Robert M. Pirsig