#age

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest. ↗

— Nancy Humphries

#management #sales #training #business

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement. ↗

— Otto Schily

#affluent #always #assume #come #even

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age. ↗

— Allen Tate

#am #appeal #authority #i #i am

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. ↗

— Will Smith

#average #considered #i #insane #just

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#brings #challenges #courage #dignity #experience

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#age #air #before #begin #constantly

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#homage #pay #truth #use

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— William Feather

#about #being #change #ever #many

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#any #bigger #complex #direction #fool