Humaines Ressources Quotes & Sayings

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. — Khalil Gibran

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. — Richard M. Nixon

[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict. — C. Sommerville

At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, through practice and experience and determination, you will get to the end. — Greg Van Eekhout

giving just a smile, or an encouraging word to somebody, just being nice to somebody-it doesnt cost anything, but means everything — Joni Meyer-Crothers

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important. — Natalie Portman

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. — John Mott

Go forward with joyful confidence. — George Eliot

You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume. — Ellen Sussman

When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit. — Warren Beatty

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. — Frank Herbert

That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur. — Joseph Hall

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax ... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know. — Plato