Nonella Quotes & Sayings

Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things. — Clayton Christensen

Love is the divinest attribute of the human soul. — David O. McKay

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. — George Pierce Baker

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved. — B.F. Skinner

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself. — Nick Offerman

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. — Mahatma Gandhi

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you. — Marjorie M. Liu

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star. — Arthur Eddington

Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another's arms, and win acclaim for my death-defying stunts. — Marya Hornbacher

What a lovely drink this is, it makes one want to be a poet — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song. — Ian MacKaye

I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it. — Adrian Tomine

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps — J.C. Ryle