Sqwincher Zero Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful - they don't want to do it. And they become dependent - they can't do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul. — Marcus Buckingham

I am convinced that if stories such as these have any lasting value, it is in revealing the kind of work young pulp-writers were doing in those days when rates were low and one had to make a typewriter smoke in order to keep eating. — Hugh B. Cave

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There — George Lakoff

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren't going well, tell them. — David M. Cote

Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self. — David F. Wells

I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa's house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on. — Lena Dunham

There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it. — Eric Schlosser

Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners. — Jim Bouton

I move, therefore I am. — Haruki Murakami

I leave quoting me to my friends — Mike Voyce

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack. — John Ashcroft

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. — Paulo Coelho

I like there to be some interest in every element of my life. — Waris Ahluwalia

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham