C Quotes
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“CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.”
“CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.”
“CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.”
“CEOs must master three essential attributes, realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. One's capacity in each determines their ability to cope with today's business environment.”
“CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.”
“CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.”
“CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.”
“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”
“CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.”
“CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.”
“CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.”
“CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.”
“Cependant, avec un peu de zèle et quelque effort, je pouvais lire Platon, résoudre des calculs trigonométriques ou suivre une analyse chimique. Mais j’étais incapable d’une chose seulement : tirer de mon être le but obscur et me le représenter, comme le faisaient les autres qui savaient avec certitude vouloir être professeur ou juge, médecin ou artiste, et pendant combien de temps, et quels avantages ils retireraient de ces professions.”
“Cependant, l'animal le plus faible est en général en mesure d'éviter le combat par l'adoption d'une posture de soumission (accroupissement, présentation de l'anus).”
Source: The Elementary Particles
“Cependant, la nouvelle organisation aura beau être structurellement bien pensée, elle pourra être remise en question par les humains dont elle est censée améliorer la condition et le destin. Car si l’être humain ne change pas quotidiennement pour atteindre générosité, compassion, éthique et équité, la société ne pourra changer durablement. On peut manger bio, recycler ses déchets et ses eaux usées, se chauffer à l’énergie solaire et exploiter son prochain. Cela n’est pas incompatible.”
Source: La part du colibri: L'Espèce humaine face à son devenir
“Cependant, pour les pays les plus avancés, les mesures suivantes pourront assez généralement être applicables :
1 ̊Expropriation de la propriété foncière et confiscation de la rente foncière au profit de l’Etat.
2 ̊Impôt fortement progressif.
3 ̊Abolition de l’héritage.
4 ̊Confiscation de la propriété de tous les émigrants et de tous les rebelles.
5 ̊Centralisation du crédit dans les mains de l’Etat au moyen d’une banque nationale, avec capital de l’Etat, et avec le monopole exclusif.
6 ̊Centralisation dans les mains de l’Etat de tous les moyens de transport.
7 ̊Augmentation des manufactures nationales et des instruments de production, défrichement des terrains incultes et amélioration des terres cultivées d’après un système général.
8 ̊Travail obligatoire pour tous, organisation d’armées industrielles, particulièrement pour l’agriculture.
9 ̊Combinaison du travail agricole et industriel, ; mesures tendant à faire disparaître la distinction entre ville et campagne.
10 ̊Education publique et gratuite de tous les enfants, abolition du travail des enfants dans les fabriques tel qu’il est pratiqué aujourd’hui. Combinaison de l’éducation avec la production matérielle, etc., etc.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“Cependant, toutes les histoires – je parle des vraies, hein, pas de celles où des ados à grande gueule se transforment en espions-ninjas, ou dont les protagonistes vieillissants renversent leur petite vie privilégiée sur un coup de tête et vont ouvrir une librairie d’occasion à Barcelone, où ils découvrent enfin l’amour – ont besoin de nous pour survivre. Les êtres humains sont les nuages d’où pleuvent les histoires, mais nous sommes également les éclats de verre qui en réfractent la lumière, qui en polarisent les rayons jusqu’à les rendre brûlants.”
Source: La Vie ô combien ordinaire d'Hannah Green
“Ceplerini boşalt," dedi. "Bakalım ceplerinde 'umutlar' ve 'çelenkler' için neler var.”
“Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Cerca una maglia rotta nella rete
che ci stringe, tu balza fuori, fuggi!
Va, per te l'ho pregato, - ora la sete
mi sarà lieve, meno acre la ruggine...”
Source: Ossi di seppia
“Cercare di diventare non un uomo di successo, ma un uomo di valore”
“cercava di sostituire la parola scrivania con la parola tavolo … in scrivania sentiva prigionia, agonia, tirannia. Mentre in tavolo sentiva il fruscio di un refolo, il sibilo del volo. Tavolo fluttuava, scrivania no.”
Source: Have Mercy on Us All
“Cerchi il principio e intanto racconti una storia, forse per non pensare che non esiste nessun cielo. Nessun inizio, nessuna fine, solo un moto incessante, una distanza infinita e nient'altro.
Certo, può essere un assurdo malinteso, un errore scientifico, e allora forse c'è ancora qualcosa che non comprendiamo.”
Source: Crepitio di stelle
“Cerchi sull'acqua, dunque. Uno si crede originale, forse sopratutto come artista, mentre in realtà è impregnato dello spirito del tempo, delle atmosfere, delle idee, delle correnti e delle tendenze che fluttuano in modo imperscrutabile in giro per il mondo.”
Source: From Cape Wrath to Finisterre: Sailing the Celtic Fringe
“Cerco di non pensare troppo. Al pari di altre cose, adesso, il pensiero dev’essere razionato. Ci sono pensiero che diventano intollerabili quando ci si sofferma troppo. Il pensare può nuocere, e io sono decisa a resistere.”
“Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.”
“Cereal is a medium through which we learn to confuse hunger with marketing.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Cereal is Wheat”
“Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries”
“Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.”
“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”
“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Source: Martin Ritt: Interviews
“Cerebros sanos crean sociedad sana.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“Cerebus heard the Panrovian "March of Virgins" had to be canceled . . . your daughter got pregnant . . . and your wife refused to march alone!”
Source: Cerebus, Vol. 1: Cerebus
“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
Source: Works: With a Life and Notes
“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.”
“Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.”
“Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.”
“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.
“Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.”
“Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Ceremony is all backbone.”
“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”
“Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.”
“Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.”
Source: Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living
“Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.”
“Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.”
Source: The Poems of William Cowper ...
“CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled noir story twists on itself and adds layers and grows stranger and before you know it, BAM - it's the end of the world and all you can do is hang on by your fingernails. This really, truly is one of the best novellas I've read in years.”