Hospitality Quotes - Page 11

• No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Influence, Lending

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.153

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• A watched child never learns.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Children, Teenager

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• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Long, Gone

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• A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Leadership, Men, Vision

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles Rangel

  Growing, Today, Construction

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• We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Foundation

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

  Toots Thielemans

  Morning, Practice, Four

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• I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

  Karen Duffy

  Running, Fear, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

  Gabe Newell

  Kevin, Littles, Faces

  Portal 2 Comes to PS3 Sony Press Conference e3 2010, www.youtube.com. June 17, 2010.

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• We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

  Russ Carnahan

  Home, Waiting, Today

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• It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, School, Ethics

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• In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

  Paul Eldridge

  Inspirational, Learning, Spiders

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Mets, Conventions

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Doors, Uniforms

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

  Alice Waters

  Giving, Humanity, Tables

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• It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Car, Paper

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• When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Night, Swag, Class

  "A Disciple of Christ: Conversations with Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

  Vivien Leigh

  Beautiful, Needs, Looks

  "Memorable hotel suites" by Ingrid Skjong, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2012.

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• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  Ang Lee

  Son, Trying, Diapers

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  Ted Allen

  Party, Important, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Hospital is no place to be sick.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Witty, Health, Sick

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have felt for some time that if political candidates or their staff are willing to make the pilgrimage to North Iowa, the least we can do is show hospitality. And it's also a wonderful way to get to know these people who make our political system work.

  Kurt Meyer

  Iowa, People, Political

  "'Tranquility' Is A Way Station On Iowa's Campaign Trail". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• We all get attached to frayed towels, mismatched sheets and shapeless pillows, associating them with years of comfort, but they have ceased to be functional! As for the plethora of hotel freebies, gather them in a basket to be offered as a hospitality service to your overnight guests. They'll be pleased by your thoughtfulness-and amazed that you're so organized.

  Julie Morgenstern

  Years, Comfort, Guests

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