Jim Clemmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.
-- Jim Clemmer

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Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.
-- Jim Clemmer

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We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.
-- Jim Clemmer

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Even God cannot change the past.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Jim Clemmer famous quotes

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