C Quotes
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“Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.”
Source: Killosophy
“Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.”
“Credevo che per Barney esistessi solo tu. Almeno questo è quello che dicono tutti. Senti, ambasciator non porta pena, ma secondo me non bisogna mai essere le ultime a sapere, e guarda che parlo per esperienza personale. Dorothy Weaver - tu non la conosci, ma non importa - lo ha visto mercoledì scorso al cocktail dei Johnson. E insomma, il tuo devoto maritino si era appiccicato ad una tizia. Le parlava fitto fitto, le sussurrava paroline all'orecchio. A un certo punto le ha persino massaggiato la schiena, e poi se ne sono andati insieme".
"Non mi dici niente di nuovo".
"Meno male, perchè l'ultima cosa al mondo che volevo era turbarti".
"Vedi, il punto è che quella donna ero io. Usciti dai Johnson siamo andati al Ritz, abbiamo esagerato con lo champagne, e poi - ma guai se lo racconti in giro -, poi ho accettato di andare a casa con lui”
Source: Barney's Version
“Credevo di aver fatto la migliore delle mosse e invece fu un errore madornale. Rievocavo l’accaduto dell’estate precedente e la solidarietà maschile di Mattia, senza neppure immaginare che con le ragazze era tutto diverso. Le ragazze non sono creature di cui ci si possa fidare.”
Source: Nichi arriva con il buio
“Credi che non sorgano impeti di sentimenti anche in me? Ma io non li lascio scatenare; io li afferro, li domo; li inchiodo. Hai visto le belve e il domatore nei serragli? Ma non credere: io, che pure sono il domatore, poi rido di me perché mi vedo come tale in questa parte che mi sono imposta verso i miei sentimenti; e ti giuro che qualche volta mi verrebbe voglia di farmi sbranare da una di queste belve...”
Source: Il giuoco delle parti
“Credi in te stesso quando scrivi; dubitane, come un nemico, quando ti rileggi”
“Credibility and dishonesty are polar opposites, not just in motion, but also in motive. Credibility is driven by a selfless spirit of mutual respect. Dishonesty is driven by a selfish spirit of self-preservation.”
Source: Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity
“Credibility comes when you boss up and do something that provides value to society.”
“Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”
“Credibility is a basic survival tool.”
“Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.”
“Credibility is a must. Think of all those bloggers that kill us with photos outside the shows - there will be a selection there, too. Not because some are less good, but those that do not impose a style will have fewer requests.”
“CREDIBILITY is about MANAGING COMMITMENTS. It is about having SELF-RESPECT enough to FOLLOW-THROUGH on your decisions, commitments and destiny. It is the ULTIMATE PRICE for GREATNESS”
“Credibility is another asset when seeking to establish your professional brand. When you dress the part, you signal to others that you take your life’s work and role seriously.”
Source: The Power Dressers: A Women’s Guide to Professional Style
“Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.”
Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business
“Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.”
“Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.”
“Credibility is what it is ALL about.”
“Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.”
“Credibility says everything about you.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.”
Source: Influence Without Authority
“Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.”
“Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.”
“Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.”
“Credibly comes from results.”
“Credința e ca o pasăre cu două aripi; eu sunt o aripă, tu ești o aripă. Ne rugăm și zboară. Deci, ne rugăm noi și vine și bunul Dumnezeu.”
Source: Cine suntem
“Credința ne impunem să credem în ceva invizibil și inefabil, să acceptăm ca adevăr un lucru pentru care nu există dovezi empirice. Și astfel, ajungem să credem în lucruri diferite, deoarece nu există un adevăr universal.”
Source: Origin
“Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.”
“Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.”
“Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.”
“Credit card advances at the casino are perhaps the biggest indicator that you have a serious gambling addiction. They are the last resort to get cash after you have spent the money you brought with you, then maxed out your debit card at the ATM, then cashed checks and emptied your checking account.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.”
“Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.”
“Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.”
Source: The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place
“Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.”
“Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.”
“Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.”
“Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.”
“Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Credit freeze for kids is a great move because it prevents any new accounts being opened up under their social security number for as long as the freeze is in place.”
“Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.”
“Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.”
Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works
“Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?”
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
“Credit is a young man's capital.”
“Credit is an 'I love debt' score.”
“Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”
“Credit is money of the mind.”
“Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.”
Source: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash