Scatterer Quotes

#1. The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Beatrice Webb

#2. (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#3. What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?

Ysabella Brave

#4. The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time; andif he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him.

Laurence Sterne

#5. Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.

Neal Stephenson

#6. The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

Jyoti Arora

#8. Make fair agreements and stick to them

Confucius

#9. If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

Victoria Beckham

#10. The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

David Jolly

#11. Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

Debi Thomas

#12. As people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives - resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control.

Atul Gawande

#13. Was that you, Pooky Bear?

Susan Ee