"Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how."

-- Madeleine M. Kunin

#Children Quotes #Adults Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.”
“And even when you canâ€™t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.”
“She simply stood there and waited for him to show her the next move. And hoped it only involved sword fighting and not seduction.”
“If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.”
“Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The media and the interviews are great, but that does not help me make a call on the field. To me, I've got to work the game, and I've got to be great at it.”
“Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.”
“I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.”

You may also like:

Edward Albee
Playwright
Howard Dean
Former Governor of Vermont
James H. Douglas
Former Governor of Vermont
Jennifer Baumgardner
Writer
Jim Jeffords
Former U.S. Senator
John Silber
Peter Shumlin
Governor of Vermont
Peter Welch
U.S. Representative
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President