Hospitality Quotes - Page 6

• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Book, Getting High, Clubs

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• The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

  Phil Collins

  Details, London, Rooms

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• Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Home, Barns, Needs

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• It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

  Lexa Doig

  Stay Strong, Stars, Four

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• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  Barbara Boxer

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Hands

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• If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

  Dennis Roch

  Leadership, Humorous, Silly

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• Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Incredibles, Heavy

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, New York, Men

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• My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

  Kurtis Blow

  Hollywood, Jam, Diplomats

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• When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Rapper, Trying, Hotel

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• Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Mean, Years, People

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• There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

  Curtis Stone

  Opportunity, Media, People

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• During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

  Emily Watson

  Home, Thinking, Rooms

  "Making waves" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2000.

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• We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Two, Plot, Three

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• Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Leadership, Empowerment, Roles

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Transformation

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• Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.

  Mickalene Thomas

  People, Voting, Vote

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• I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

  Allan Sherman

  Pay, Bills, Hotel

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

  Akio Morita

  Relationship, Leadership, Responsibility

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• The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Leadership, Responsibility, Circles

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Soldier, Empowerment

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• It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, Responsibility, Opportunity

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