Pettiness Spiritual Quotes & Sayings

You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. — David Ogilvy

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists. — Eckhart Tolle

EVANGELIST By GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. — Walter F. Adeney

My ability is my most prized possession, even though it separates me from everyone else. But for power, for my own power, it is a price I am willing to pay. — Victoria Aveyard

A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. — Naa Shalman

The best place to get help is from yourself. — Epictetus

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier
their Christianity, for example. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our son shall win.
QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow. — William Shakespeare

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create? — Howard Schultz

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore De Balzac

Take the brown eyes of my father,
those gun shots, those mean muds.
Bury them.
Take the blue eyes of my mother,
naked as the sea ... — Anne Sexton