Jack Stack Quotes

#1. We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"

Yasmin Mogahed

#2. I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

Alan Price

#3. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Sam Ervin

#4. Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.

Holly Smale

#5. An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

Oliver Herford

#6. Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#7. Rory did not want her.
After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.

Margaret Mallory

#8. I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.

Joe Piscopo

#9. I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.

Richard M. Daley

#10. This day's black fate on more days doth depend;
This but begins the woe, others must end.

William Shakespeare

#11. Life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.

Stephanie Barron

#12. When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college - and we didn't - that just put it off for a few years.

Tana French

#13. Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

John C. Maxwell

#14. I've seen workaholics who've destroyed people. They become obsessed. They send out terrible messages. They make people feel guilty if they don't show up on Saturday. What a stupid message. People should be giving that time to their families.

Jack Stack

#15. He wore the same shorts and t-shirts to work for days on end. He refused to wear shoes with laces. He refused to wear watches or even his wedding ring. To calm himself at work he often blared heavy metal music.

Michael Lewis

#16. A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

Erin Kelly