Quotes of: Community-service Keyword

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

Maria Cantwell

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Tobias Wolff

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Yves Tanguy

So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sunday’s a comin’ prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to head for my closet. Literally. If I‘m at ...

Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy.

Chew, Vol. 3: Just Desserts

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

The Caves of Steel

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

The Demigod Diaries

There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.

Dispelling Wetiko

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

The Essays of Montaigne - Complete

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Blackbeard the Pirate

Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --Hudson Angel icing? That's the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I've heard in my

Bittersweet

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for ...

Tim O'Reilly

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It ...

Virginia Postrel

said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

Killosophy

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

Managing Stress in Emergency Medical Services