"We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today."

-- Scott McNealy

#Cutting Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.”
“I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.”
“If I see someone I'm in awe of I'm like, 'Oh my God. Oh. My. God.' But on the outside I'm very calm. I'd never run up and hassle anyone.”
“Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.”
“If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.”
“Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.”
“And then the time I was a clown and went to the hospital to visit the children, and I went into a room by myself where a little boy was, and his mother started to cry, and after I visit with the boy I went out and asked the mother if I had did anything wrong. Â She said noit just that her sonhad been in there for six weeks and that was the first time she seen him smile.”
“Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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