Last Page Of 2020 Quotes & Sayings

A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed. And so we've organized around this idea of compliance in all things - in school, in the foods we eat, in the way we respond to marketing. And it's a dead end. — Seth Godin

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction. — Charles Kettering

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people. — Frances Newton

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments. — A. C. Benson

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience. — Sylvia Plath

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well. — Steve Martin

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. — Tina Brown

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. — Willa Cather

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. — Eckhart Tolle

There aren't terrible ideas," the Gray Man said. "Just ideas done terribly. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym. — Julianna Margulies

A belief is an idea around which we close our minds. — Bob Allen

1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. — Anonymous

The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol nor in the cold of winter don thick clothing. In dangerous places he must dismount and walk. He waits until the army's wells have been dug and only then drinks; until the army's food is cooked before he eats; until the army's fortifications have been completed, to shelter himself. — Sun Tzu

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?' — Andy Serkis