Recommendations Quotes:

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

- Aristotle

topic: Beauty, Letters, Recommendations, Personal Beauty

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

- David Perlmutter

source: John James Audubon (1873). “The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist”, p.145

topic: May, Recommendations, Grain

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

- Henry Fielding

source: Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “Preface. Essay on the life and genius of Henry Fielding, esq. Love in several masques, a comedy. The temple beau, a comedy. The author's farce; with a puppet shew, called The pleasures of the town. The coffee house politician; or, The justice caught in his own trap, a comedy. The tragedy of tragedies; or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great”, p.186

topic: People, Praise, Recommendations

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

- Jan Hus

topic: Accepting, Recommendations, Faculty, Theological

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

- Kieron Gillen

topic: Self, Spirit, Recommendations

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Philosophical, Speech, Recommendations, Orators, Brevity

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Solemnity, Recommendations, Crafty

There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations.

- Marty Natalegawa

topic: Needs, Recommendations, Quarters, Tribunals

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Character, Silent, Recommendations, Exterior

Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than wisely.

- Seth Klarman

topic: May, Pressure, Recommendations

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

- Stuart Rose

source: "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

topic: Recommendations, Chiefs, Chief Executives

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

- Babatunde Fashola

topic: Police, Recommendations, Screening

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

- Steve Womack

topic: Demand, Recommendations, Candor

There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Winning, Stressful, Recommendations, Time Consuming

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

- Colin Powell

source: "Colin Powell: I Have ‘No Problem With’ Gay Marriage" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2012.

topic: Outcomes, Congress, Recommendations

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

- Daniel Kahneman

source: Source: time.com

topic: Bed, Recommendations, Angry

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

- Henry Fielding

source: Henry Fielding (1749). “The history of Tom Jones: a foundling”, p.232

topic: Letters, Recommendations, Countenance

We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Military, People, Recommendations

Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

- Rudy Giuliani

topic: Vets, Recommendations

A good face is the best letter of recommendation.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Letters, Faces, Recommendations

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

topic: Portfolios, Opinion, Recommendations

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Writing, Recommendations, Hardest

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

- Esther Dyson

source: "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

topic: Past, Stuff, Recommendations

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Government, Recommendations, Bodyguard