Accounts Quotes - Page 10

• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

  John Guare

  Six Degrees Of Separation, Life Is, Brushes

  John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage

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• If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Men, Hands, Names

  Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.5, Del Rey

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• When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow your hunger instincts, well, I really just want to pinch their heads off. That's like a millionaire suggesting that instead of worrying about that's in your bank account, just listen to your shopping instincts and buy high-quality goods . . . weight loss is not magic. To a great extent, it's accounting.

  Chalene Johnson

  Loss, Shopping, Quality Goods

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.113, Rodale

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• For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

  Ira Berlin

  Drama, Slavery, Abduction

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• Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

  Jacques Necker

  Public Opinion, Fool, Failing

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• Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'

  Jerry Della Femina

  Thinking, Lines, Pearls

  "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor". Book by Jerry Della Femina, 1970.

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• The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account.’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time... ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’

  Jerry Della Femina

  Jobs, Creative, Majority

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• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  Brenda Peterson

  Web Of Life, Vision, World

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• Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

  Rebecca L. Walkowitz

  Ambitious, Vivid, Fiction

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• Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm.

  Ralph Cavanagh

  Unique, Creating, Vision

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• For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

  Jim Wickwire

  Mountain, Trouble, Danger

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• No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

  Mark Pagel

  Believe, Wonder, Don't Believe

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• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Sleep, Government

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• Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Self, Style, Rooms

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• As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Destiny, Long, Narrative

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• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Book, Men

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• Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

  Wayne Grudem

  People, Sovereign, Merit

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.624, Harper Collins

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• Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

  Richard Branson

  Reality, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing.

  Ralph J. Cordiner

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Account no man happy till he dies.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Men, Dies

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• Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

  Plato

  Art, Stars, Philosophy

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• The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Novelty, Opinion, Astronomy

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• "If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Honesty

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.230, Mango Media Inc.

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• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Past, Perspective, Evil

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

  Carl Jung

  Talking, Giving, Perspective

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