Five Quotes - Page 33

• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Sleep, Cities

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Quality, Elements

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

  Northrop Frye

  Travel, Past, Europe

  Northrop Frye (2013). “The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Mother, Father, Lost

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

  Martin Seligman

  Zero, Enabling, Plus

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• My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Husband, Book, Writing

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• Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ethics, Driving, Bigs

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• I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.

  Yves Klein

  Childhood, Five Senses, Proof

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p. 19, 1974.

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• "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
  But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

  Macklemore

  Children, Book, Years

  "Song: 'Same Love'". 2012.

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• We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives issued by the Commission.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Phases, Welcome, Election

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• The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

  Charles Saatchi

  Years, Today, Lasts

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Curves, Years, Planning

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• Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

  David L. Katz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mirrors

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• How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

  Rafael Benitez

  Play, Wife, Popping

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• There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

  Karen MacNeil

  Wine, Dollars, Bottles

  "Wine prices: How much to pay". www.cnn.com.

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• We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

  Steve Shaw

  Past, Agency, Years

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• I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

  Jonathan Moyo

  Party, Odds, Government

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• Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Organization, People, Effort

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• Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Cute, People, Design

  "What can we do?" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

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• About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.

  Rick Carlisle

  Running, Years, Tree

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• Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Years, Trying

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