Fishman Company Quotes & Sayings

When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and did well. If we'd forced him to go to college somewhere else all the incentives would've been different. Then he would have had a motive to prove that we were wrong. — Cokie Roberts

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again. — Charles Fishman

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. — Michel De Montaigne

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up ... And fight for what you believe in? — Dan Quayle

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. — Ambrose Bierce

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name. — Linda Ronstadt

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers
people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin. — Otto Penzler

Then I thought of how strong I have become, how secure I feel with the person I now am, and how all along the way he has told me that I am brave, I am respected, I am loved and worth loving. — Veronica Roth

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community. — Curt Sachs

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits. — Robert Hilburn

Was this new self awareness a gift or a curse? — D. Morgenstern