"We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job."

-- Joshua Schachter

#Jobs Quotes #People Quotes

“An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.”
“Necessity inspires the fatal thought.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.”
“I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown
“The girl has to be, you know, "the man," who is going to take care of everybody.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.”
“Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.”

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