Quotes About Shakers

#1. Position yourself as a
center of influence, the one
who knows the movers and
shakers. People will
respond to that, and you'll
soon become what you
project.

Bob Burg

#2. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

Mario J. Lucero

#4. I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Eva Zeisel

#5. Did he break it off? Were you too tall for him?"
"We're the same height. Actually."
"Really. That's adorable. Like salt and pepper shakers.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Aby Rosen

#7. People said the towers looked like giant salt and pepper shakers, but I'd always thought they looked like Daleks from Doctor Who.

Rick Riordan

#8. Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Douglas Coupland

#9. The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

George Lois

#10. The women are the movers and shakers in the community ... they initiate things ... they keep things going.

Pat O'Shane

#11. You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.

Melissa Kantor

#12. I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Marc Newson

#13. Some people think God is going to guide those humans. The Oneida community and the Shakers both believed that they had received revelations about how to build the New Jerusalem that the Bible says is coming

Christine Jennings

#14. If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries.

Kay Koplovitz

#16. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

#17. The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

Bill McKibben

#18. With the possible exception of the Shakers, it is difficult to think of an American movement that has failed more spectacularly than antipornography feminism.

Andrea Dworkin

#19. The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Theodore Sturgeon

#20. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

Markus Zusak

#21. I'd probably put those salt and pepper shakers away now, David, because we're about to be visited by dribbling cannibal psychopath and we wouldn't want to tease these fellows. Of course, if they're very hungry, I do have this left arm that I don't use all that much.

Garret Keizer

#22. I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

Ben Nicholson

#23. Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

Christopher Titus

#24. But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.

Aristotle.

#25. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

Robby Benson

#26. In L.A., you are your job.

Dayna Devon

#27. No, enjoy it while you can. Esther said as she walked out alone.

Barry Gray

#28. You can't kill the Devil with a sword.

Ann Lee

#29. If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#30. The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Jon Kyl

#31. I love you, Nora. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that. I don't care why you came into my life, only that you did. I don't remember all the things I did wrong. I remember what I did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#32. I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Benjamin Spock

#33. If you want to be confident, but don't normally act that way, today, just this once, act in the physical world the way you believe a confident person would.

Wayne Dyer

#34. Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

Giraldus Cambrensis

#35. Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

Kim Harrison

#36. Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Ralph Waldo Emerson