Quotes of: Business-career Keyword

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

IN MY DEFENSE, I didn’t mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn’t just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.

Armageddon Rules

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

I Learn from Children

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Instant Happy Journal: 365 Days of Inspiration, Gratitude, and Joy

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

The road to success and achievement can be a busy highway – crowded and noisy, full of hazards and tie-ups. Every now and then, you need to take the side roads, get away from the rush, and enjoy the trip.

On The Journey To Achievement

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.

Junk Miles

It's a messy business--being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.

Keeping Merminia

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.

Rational Theology

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Business

Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.

Someday Dancer

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

The Sense of an Ending

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

The Screwtape Letters

Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.

Makers

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.

The Moonstone