#sine

Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist. ↗

— John Kelly

#plague #widows #business

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#parable #prodigal-son #religious #business

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight. ↗

— Denise Moreland

#leadership #management #organizational-leadership #training-management #business

Part of living in a free world is finding peace from within and reflecting that to the outside world through your thoughts and deeds. A free mind is the foundation of a free world". ↗

— Tambré Bryant - Strategic Intervention Life Business Coach

#business

Insects all business all the time. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#business

The business and method of mysticism is love. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#mysticism #spirituality #business

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#kingdom #servants #business

I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#business

She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth. ↗

— Belle Malory

#life #reality #business

Because, as someone who does feng shui for a living, there's no way I could do my feng shui if I was whacked out on crack, because my business is about discerning energy fields, and if you're cracked up, or on pot, or even if you've had too much coffee, the energy field gets all wonky, believe me, I know used to smoke! ↗

— George Saunders

#business