Eager Beaver Quotes

• The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

  Lee Iacocca

  Top Management, People, Guy

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• But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

  Mick Delaney

  Inspirational, Motivation, Pay

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

  Emma Watson

  Badass, Confusing, Becoming

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• God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Love You, God Love, Should

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.192, David C Cook

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• I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

  Emma Watson

  Believe, Heart, Vulnerable

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• Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Trying, Puff

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Believe, Heart

  "Emma Watson Had Emma Stone Speech Envy Before MTV Trailblazer Award". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2013.

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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