"A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom."

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Source : Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

Robert Spector

#Strong Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Personality Quotes

“It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.”
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.”

Source : "Exhalation". Short story by Ted Chiang, 2008.
“To love a thing means wanting it to live.”
“It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.”
“Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.”
“There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.”

Source : "Andrew Young: Nothing you can't solve without violence". Interview with Henry Unger, www.ajc.com. January 12, 2013.
“You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.”

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