Ethical Immediacy Quotes

#1. John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway.

Bill Bryson

#2. On a few words of what is real in the world
I nourish myself. I defend myself against
Whatever remains.

Wallace Stevens

#3. When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Nas

#4. Never be moved by opinions of others. Keep your composure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

Philip Green

#6. One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

William Hazlitt

#7. I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

Ridley Scott

#8. Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don't, then everything is over with here, once and for all.

Franz Kafka

#9. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't.

Bob Sutton