“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.” IfsJobsOpportunityTeachingMissingReturnAnxietyOptimismPerformancesStriveAverageCuresImprovingExceedTeaching Someone Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.” MissingReturnPleaseManageQuartersInchesBlankFittingEnvelopes Author:Robert Benchley
“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.” PleasureResultsEffortBeautySeeingFashionMissingReturnLaborSurfaceForfeit Author:Roderick E. Stevens
“I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."” ThinkingWritingFirstsFunnyRoomsComedyMissingReturnLettersCuriousTheeHotelDarlingHotel RoomsNightfallEmbassyFortnightStationery Author:Jim Gaffigan
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.” WantDoeFactsLordDoorsMissingReturnPureCleanPreparedWant USupper Author:M. Russell Ballard
“I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.” MindSchoolNamesMissingHairMonthsReturnBearsCallingBullyingHarry PotterBeatenPottersName Calling Author:Tom Felton
“When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?” PeopleStuffHellMissingFiguresReturnShootingMoses Author:Moses Malone
“Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.” AudienceAliveStageMissingReturnTheaterPerformingGratificationImmediate Gratification Author:Brendan Dooling
“Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.” YearsHeartWholeForgetMissingReturnSafeEightIranNever ForgetRejoiceBobCoordinationSafe Return Author:Barack Obama