Tom Rath Quotes

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

Tom Rath

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WorkGoodAmerican DreamSleepSweet

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

SportsBaseballDramaRunCast

When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.

Jessica Williams

LadyYoungNeverGetting Married

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Jeremy Grantham

DeathPeopleEnvironmentalBetter

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

Joel Edgerton

JobWritingHobbyActingRealCall

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

RankRepublicGraveNorNeither

I love many members of my staff. In fact, all the members of my staff. Do I love some more than others? Absolutely.

Robert J. Bentley

LoveOthersMoreAbsolutelyFact

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

Michael Eisner

PeopleBecomeFirstSuccessfulMade

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

Stephen Cohen

WarRegretCriticsReasonNo Reason

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

Stephen Mangan

ChildParentsWorldViewLookMust

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow.

Suki Waterhouse

TimeHandEyebrowsHalfEyebrow

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

BelieveNobodyI BelieveCompensation

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Jay McInerney

MoneyYourselfYouKnowLyingCatch

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