Bock Quotes

#1. I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.
silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.

John Steinbeck

#3. You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock.
He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.

Christine Feehan

#4. There's a head inside the ball?" Surefire turned a shade paler along the edges of her face paint.
"It is good," Coatl responded. "Makes the ball lighter, bounce farther."
"You always want to get a head in the game," Raven added.

J.T. Bock

#5. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.

Laszlo Bock

#6. You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice."
"Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?

J.T. Bock

#7. You're all here. Mixed in a bit with some of my cells. May have to redefine our relationship after this.

J.T. Bock

#8. The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

Laszlo Bock

#9. TimeTrap raised her head and looked pointedly at St. John. It was a dimensional portal, silly. Duh.

J.T. Bock

#10. Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE
debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press

Caroline Bock

#11. That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

Dennis Bock

#12. I'm not a liar. I just have a good memory for things that never happened.

J.T. Bock

#13. Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.
p. 1 ... Before My Eyes ... look for it on 2.11.14

Caroline Bock

#14. There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.

Laszlo Bock

#15. As long as ratings are directly linked to pay and career opportunities, every employee has this incentive to exploit the system.

Laszlo Bock

#16. Typical Xochi, leaving out important, death-related details.

J.T. Bock

#17. G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don't predict anything.

Laszlo Bock

#18. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Laszlo Bock

#19. Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

Darrell Bock

#20. As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Kenneth Bock

#21. Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno.

J.T. Bock

#22. Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.

Caroline Bock

#23. Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

Darrell Bock

#24. It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.

Laszlo Bock

#25. Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it.

Charles Bock

#26. The only way for us to make sense of life today is to appreciate where the future is going. Scripture outlines that future, not with detailed dates, but with a general outline of what is to come. That outline is designed not to have us prepare charts, but to prepare our hearts.

Darrell Bock

#27. Invaluable ... the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

Alan Bock

#28. I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

Laszlo Bock

#29. When Stephen declares that he sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, he is stoned for blasphemy because, in the view of these Jews, no one has the right to be at the side of God's heavenly presence.

Darrell L. Bock

#30. The kind of workman who gives the business the best that is in him is the best kind of workman a business can have. And he cannot be expected to do this indefinitely without proper recognition.

Laszlo Bock

#31. We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

Laszlo Bock

#32. Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Alan Bock

#33. I hadn't realized she could shrink ... It makes sense now with the tricks Ari was able to perform with her."
"She wasn't born that way. Her mother was a scientist working to reduce subatomic particles."
"And whose mom isn't?" Raven joked. "Was Rick Moranis involved somehow?

J.T. Bock

#34. What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

Laszlo Bock

#35. If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

Laszlo Bock

#36. One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

Laszlo Bock