"People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills."

-- Marvin Bower

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Personality Quotes

“Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.”
“I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.â€™ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.”
“sometimes I hate you," she said.”
“The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more -- perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.”
“Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.”
“There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others”
“It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.”
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”

Source : "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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