Korb Quotes & Sayings

Gratefulness is actually good for brain and body health (Korb, 2012). In one study researchers asked participants to keep a daily journal of what they were grateful for. They asked another group to write about what annoyed them. The group who recorded what they were grateful for showed greater determination, attention, enthusiasm, and energy compared to the other group. In another study the same researchers discovered that even keeping a weekly gratefulness journal reduced aches and pains. And in a Chinese study, gratefulness decreased depression and improved sleep. — Charles Stone

Himself an ugly man, insignificant
of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others. — W. Somerset Maugham

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing. — Lawrence Korb

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn. — Lawrence Korb

We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time. — Taraka Larson

What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out. — Malebo Sephodi

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work. — Lawrence Korb

And closely akin [...] was the call still sounding in the depths of the forest. It filled him with a great unrest and strange desires. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what. — Jack London

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is. — Nancy Hale

You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard. — Nalini Singh

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention. — Lawrence Korb

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. — Fernando Pessoa

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security. — Lawrence Korb

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots. — Steven Bochco

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate. — Lawrence Jackson

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. — Stephen Covey

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. — Lawrence Korb

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. — Adam Smith

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards. — Andy Summers

We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural. — Don DeLillo

The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe. — Lawrence Korb