"Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return."

“How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.”

“[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.”

“Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.”

Source : "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.

“Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.”

“Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.”

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

“Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.”

Source : "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

“Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.”

Source : David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.82, Hachette UK