R Quotes
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“Referrals are the compound interest of your business—nurture every relationship, and watch growth multiply itself.”
“Referrals are the privilege of the opportunity given to you by someone else to potentially do business with someone who wants, needs or desires the products or services you offer”
Source: The Referral Rules! 7 Ways to Get More Profitable Referrals
“Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.”
“Referrals aren't given easily. If you don't take the time to establish credibility, you're not going to get the referral. People have to get to know you. They have to feel comfortable with who you are and what you do.”
“Referred to euphemistically to children as 'privates', the vagina is no longer permitted to be private. Instead, it is photographed independently of the face, stripped of identity, of emotional and historical and economic context, and in the service of men: public.”
“Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”
Source: How to Run a Meeting
“Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.”
“Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human.
"I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately.
"But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked."
"What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded.
"Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.”
Source: Jumper Cable
“Referring to Marx's thesis the the proletariat had no fatherland, he said that the epoch of national wars was over, and that the current struggle was an imperialist war.”
Source: Lenin
“Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.”
“Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.”
“Referring to something as 'supernatural' is not to call it unreal or untrue - on the contrary. The existence of the term itself is a linguistic and cultural acknowledgment that inexplicable things happen which we identify as being somehow beyond the natural or the ordinary, and that many of us hold beliefs which connect us to spheres that exist beyond what we might typically see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. It resonates with the idea that even though we have advanced technologically, there still are elements and concerns that rest outside our arena of control or conscious understanding.”
Source: Out Of The Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural
“Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”
“Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.”
“Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.”
Source: Black Heart
“Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.”
“Refinancing involves replacing an existing loan with a new one, often to secure better terms. But it’s a bit of a paradox because to benefit from what may be much needed refinancing, you need to qualify for refinancing.”
“Refinancing options are considered to optimize a business's financial structure, potentially lowering interest costs and improving overall financial health. But it has to be to the advantage of both the borrower and the lender.”
“Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.”
“Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?”
“Refine your aspirations, letting each setback polish your resolve and every achievement illuminate the path ahead.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.”
Source: Book of Mercy
“Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.”
“Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.”
“Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.”
Source: The Cat, Past and Present
“Refined and distinguished, the human soul is quite like what has often been said of the snowflake: Just as no two snowflakes are the same, no two life stories are the same; but just as all snowflakes are formed with six dendrons, all souls are formed in the image of God.”
“Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.”
“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.”
“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”
“Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.”
“Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.”
Source: Womankind
“Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.”
“Refining a data set implies getting rid of unnecessary, duplicate, or misleading data. If you don't do that, you can see results that are not actually true, thus hurting your decision-making.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.”
“Refire—an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.”
Source: Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
“Reflect, and buoyancy may reflect the reflection.”
“Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself”
“reflect...and you can go beyond the barriers. You are such a capable, amazing individual, dont let that f**kin worries, negative thoughts conquer your mind...reach out through happiness and you can discover everything you've always imagined you could be.”
“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”
Source: First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet
“Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.”
“Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.”
“Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.”
Source: Speech on Conciliation with America
“Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.”
“Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.”
“Reflect on the end together, as we achieve the same goal as artificial intelligence, namely, eternity.”
“Reflect on the past to gain insight and look ahead to shape the future. Don't let the past impede your progress.”
“Reflect on what name you are being called because of how you used your time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Reflect on your habits and keep them updated.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones