Todman Center Quotes

#1. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.

Charles Duhigg

#2. As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.

Edna P. Gurewitsch

#3. That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of those rooms for inappropriate behavior. And they say a library is a boring place to work.

Samantha Young

#4. I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

J.K. Rowling

#5. But perhaps understanding didn't matter as much as I imagined. Perhaps that was the true definition of faith.

Anne Mateer

#6. I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Isabel Sanford

#7. Never touch another man's button.

Blake Shelton

#8. The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Joanne Harris

#9. In the beginning there was nothing, only time. But since there was no one to count the time, there might as well have been nothing. And then there was an egg. Don't ask how it got there, OK.

Isabel Greenberg

#10. Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

Geraldine Chaplin