Hancox St Quotes & Sayings

As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4 — Carmine Gallo

We shed the skins of who we used to be! — Eric Jerome Dickey

You are not a samurai, Nate. You're a medically-savvy immortal with Star Wars bed sheets. — Chelsea Fine

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies. — Jack Ma

The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34 — John Kay

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him ... to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good ... — Brian Jacques

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. — Bill Vaughan

She and her sister were dressed in purple, with gold buckles at their throats by way of brooches, and another gold buckle each at the end of hatpins which they wore through their grey hair in order apparently to match their brooches. Their faces, identical to the point of indecency, were quite expressionless, as though they were the preliminary lay-outs for faces and were waiting for sentience to be injected. — Mervyn Peake

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo. — Simone Elkeles

Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical. — Aimee Bender

Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them. — A. Mani

The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals. — Larry Laudan

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. — J.R.R. Tolkien