Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.

Elizabeth Thornton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: January 24, 1940 - July 12, 2010

Topics

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I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MarriageYourselfParentsInteresting

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

FutureLightDarknessCandleSafe

One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.

John Lanchester

BusinessRestaurantYouWriteHeroes

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

Steve Blank

SadEntrepreneurWatchingHimFail

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Steve Martin

MomentDayLaughterMeLaughYou

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

Mike Cernovich

PopulistNationalist

It's important to stay current and fresh.

Luis Fonsi

ImportantFreshStayCurrent

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

Johnny Van Zant

EyesAlwaysOpenKeepGoing

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

OpportunityKnowledgeJobTraining

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Che Guevara

WarAngelRichWillPoorPossible

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Christopher Buckley

BusinessWaySpaceshipLobbyists

I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Brian Krzanich

TimeFunBackBuildMy OwnFirst

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