Mcclennen General Quotes & Sayings

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand. — Jeff Davidson

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe. — Henry David Thoreau

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. — Dave Grohl

What good shall I do this day? — Benjamin Franklin

Unless it does turn out to be you, of course," Izzy adds. "Then I'll spit on your grave myself. Take you to the last house on the left just before dawn. — Stephen Graham Jones

I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work. — Charles Duhigg

I like children - fried. — W.C. Fields

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud. — Kit Harington

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense — Anne Bronte

O my God, teach me to be generous
to serve you as you deserve to be served
to give without counting the cost
to fight without fear of being wounded
to work without seeking rest
and to spend myself without expecting any reward
but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
Amen — Ignatius Of Loyola

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something. — Chelsea Handler

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless. — Leo Kottke

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. — Madeleine L'Engle

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted ... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying. — John Jay