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inspiring kindness inspiration
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton
inspiring fun offering
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. Alanis Morissette
inspiring lying eye
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts
inspiring space patterns
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
inspiring confused levels
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.
inspiring conventions deceived
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
inspiring struggle killing
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
inspiring frustration trying
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
inspiring mistake cat
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." Charles Dickens
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.