We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of being wrong. And so, in a counter-intuitive way, this focus on being right seems to b...
I love you, but I hate your overeating" doesn’t help a marriage. It's not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is more a bludgeon than a scalpel. Our ability to dis...
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banque...
In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there ...
As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I...
[Shapiro received 7 letters at mail call] Animal: What do all those broads say? Shapiro: What do they always say? Animal: Lemme read one. Shapiro: It's not good for you, Animal. Animal: Hey, this is with a typewriter... it's from a finance company. S...
Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.
I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.'
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Fish and company start to smell after three days.
... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.
A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.
The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
