#ness

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

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#billion #cancer #center #change #change the world

Righteousness is easy in retrospect. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#retrospect #righteousness

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

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #fear #great #help #made

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist