Efficiency And Attitude Quotes

#1. Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Cesare Pavese

#2. People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it 'Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#3. It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

Paul Hawken

#4. The good part of Christmas is not always Christian
it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

Nicola Sturgeon

#6. There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

E. M. Forster

#7. After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

William Henry Maule

#8. Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

Bashar Al-Assad

#9. Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. My people must drink beer.

Frederick The Great

#12. I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

Brendan Iribe

#13. All success comes down to this . . . action

Rob Liano

#14. The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Helmut Jahn