"The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day."

-- David Cottrell

#Leadership Quotes #Monday Quotes #Morning Quotes

“Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.”

Source : Calvin Miller (2003). “A Hunger for the Holy: Nurturing Intimacy with Christ”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“If thou followeth a wall far enough, there must be a door in it.”
“Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
“My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which Im very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.”
“I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.”
“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”

Source : "The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton". Book by Charles Butler, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale, and Thomas de Littleton, 1832.
“I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.”
“I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the deanâ€™s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.”

Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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