Flubbing A Job Quotes & Sayings

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. — Levi-Strauss

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go. — Margaret Thatcher

The beauty of success, whether it's finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn't matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once. — Mark Cuban

Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that's the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we're hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does that make you? — Iain Banks

Sima nodded. "To lose a soldier is a type of death. A lesser death than the one that will take us all, but a death nonetheless. If we did not feel so, I suppose we would be unfit for command." He turned and faced them. "I have lost upwards of ten thousand since this war began. All of them sons and daughters to me. If we do not stop this gas, this weapon of the enemy, I will lose them all. See to it that I don't. — Orson Scott Card

Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself. — Mira Kirshenbaum

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something. — Carlos Beltran

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us. — Paulo Coelho

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. — Ian Fleming

Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength. — C.M. Rayne

Everyone gets tested. You never see it coming. But sooner or later the moment arrives and you have to account for yourself. — Adam Baker

I understand the loss of a comrade is something to mourn, but our responsibilities do not end because one has lost the fight. We as defenders of this nation have an obligation to those who've sworn allegiance to us. And I intend to uphold my oath to the people of this land, no matter the cost. — Charles Lee