Senior Quotes - Page 24

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  Warren Christopher

  Mad, Purpose, Lawyer

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• One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Nice, Journey

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• Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Business, Bridges, Juniors

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• I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Ends

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• Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Powerful, Real, Easy

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  School, Writing, Thinking

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Leadership, People, Answers

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• Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Healthy, Culture

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• We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

  John Lynch

  Children, Responsibility, People

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• The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Cutting, Numbers, Cost Of Living

  "Elizabeth Warren ‘Shocked’ At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

  Diane Watson

  Women, Income, Social

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• Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

  Enid Blyton

  Funny

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• Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Struggle, People, Focus

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• You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

  Bob Bruce

  Golf, Knows, Funny Golf

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• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Falling In Love, Real

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  College, Differences, Making A Difference

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

  Frank Zappa

  Motivational, Educational, Learning

  "Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" ("Freak Out!")". June 27, 1966.

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• Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Remember, Courtesy, Respectful

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.46, Kodansha International

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• There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.

  Dogen

  Simple, Worry, Design

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• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  Jack Layton

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Witty, Science

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• Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

  Harry Reid

  Real, Stupid, Feelings

  "Reid: Save the Postal Service, seniors depend on junk mail", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2012.

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