Professional Behaviour Quotes & Sayings

Top lines to a human being who tends to isolate (an avoidant) would mean they make an effort to talk to another human being when the opportunity arises. A top line can also mean that, whether we feel like it or not, we are committed to our recovery and to improving our emotional and professional life. The idea of 'top lines' is not to be hard on ourselves or to put us in a position where we feel unsafe or burnt out. It's a way to avoid missing opportunities to learn, serve and grow. — Christopher Dines

When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.' — Peter Landesman

Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him. — Billy Bush

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church. — Teddy Pendergrass

I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. — Irene Nemirovsky

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good. — Raheel Farooq

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get. — Brene Brown

Think of an untreated sex addict who spends hours every night until the early hours watching pornography on the internet instead of spending that time with their wife or husband, and then becomes so tired due to the late nights that their professional life suffers. The sex addict's behaviour will cause resentment, destroy trust and create economic insecurities in the family and home. — Christopher Dines

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over. — Alan Arkin

A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo — Haruki Murakami

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised. — Eric Schlosser

Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone. — Laurie Graham

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others. — Madam C. J. Walker

Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?
It doesn't matter.
We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world. — Anne Rice

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills. — Thomas Piketty

And nothing against the Dicks and Richards of the world, but I always disliked that one. Call me immature if you like - I've earned it many times over - but come on: The word. Is slang. For penis. If he was a woman named Virginia, would he insist we refer to him as Vag? I think not! (God, I hope not.) — MaryJanice Davidson