A Quotes
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“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.”
“A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.”
“A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.”
“A good management style will make the productivity of your employees go up which means your revenues and profits go up as well.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.”
Source: Further Up the Organization
“A good manager focuses on managing impediments, process, team’s health, protects the boundaries of self-organizing teams, promotes a healthy culture, and helps eliminate waste.”
“A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.”
“A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.”
Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life
“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”
“A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.”
“A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.”
“A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.”
“A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.”
“A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.”
“A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.”
Source: the elements of style
“A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.”
“A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.”
“A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.”
“A good many proverbs prove to be narrative vignettes in which ... the moral calculus of reward for the good and retribution for the wicked is turned into a seesaw of miniature narrative: “The righteous is rescued from straits, / and the wicked man comes in his stead” (11:8).... The two sequenced images, then, that the line evokes are of the good man, first seemingly pinned down and then popped out of the tight squeeze into which he has fallen, and the wicked man slipped into his place. This is very neat, but, we may ask, is that the way the world is? Obviously not—obvious, I think, not only to us but also to the poet in Proverbs, who has chosen these emblematic images to represent an underlying principle of moral causation that he believes to be present in reality but that he knows would never be so perspicuous in the untidiness of experience outside literature. This for him is precisely the advantage of literary expression, the possibility of understanding made available through “proverb and adage.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Poetry
“A good many proverbs prove to be narrative vignettes in which ... the moral calculus of reward for the good and retribution for the wicked is turned into a seesaw of miniature narrative: “The righteous is rescued from straits, / and the wicked man comes in his stead” (11:8).... The two sequenced images, then, that the line evokes are of the good man, first seemingly pinned down and then popped out of the tight squeeze into which he has fallen, and the wicked man slipped into his place. This is very neat, but, we may ask, is that the world is? Obviously not—obvious, I think, not only to us but also to the poet in Proverbs, who has chosen these emblematic images to represent an underlying principle of moral causation that he believes to be present in reality but that he knows would never be so perspicuous in the untidiness of experience outside literature. This for him is precisely the advantage of literary expression, the possibility of understanding made available through “proverb and adage.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Poetry
“A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.”
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”
Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK
“A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.”
“A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.”
“A good marketing can’t overcome your poor customer strategy, but a good customer service can compensate for your poor marketing.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A good marketing plan can’t be formed in just four hours. Plans are formed on extensive research.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.”
“A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.”
Source: Essays
“A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.”
“A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.”
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”
“A good marriage is a slow transition from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality.”
“A good Marriage is always a subtle of a single dime”
“A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.”
“A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.”
“A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.”
“A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.”
“A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.”
“A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.”
Source: View from a Column
“A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.”
“A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."”
Source: Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”
“A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.”
“a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”
“A good marriage is worth fighting for.”