Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes

#1. Hunches are not to be sneezed at.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#2. The object is to keep busy being something ... as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#3. Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

Simon Sinek

#4. feeling of when you think you can never stop laughing and you think if you don't stop, you'll burst in half and that makes you laugh even more, thinking about bursting and then when you stop, you are so tired but it is such a happy tired.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#5. One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#6. Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#7. In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

Benjamin Graham

#8. You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#9. I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#10. The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#11. Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Marianne Williamson

#12. I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

#13. I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

Larry Winget

#14. I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#15. What the hell's wrong with this house?" I asked it. "Locked rooms, and now rooms without doors at all?" I made to turn

Darcy Coates

#16. Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

Jack London

#17. In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

#18. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#19. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca.

#20. Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#21. There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#22. The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

Gina McKee