Serving Quotes - Page 37

• Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

  Mike Weir

  Writing, Tennis, Balls

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• Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

  John Fante

  Self, Bullshit, Intellectual

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• The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.

  K'naan

  Order, Pirate, Nuclear

  "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Determination, Heart

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Teaching, Foundation, May

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

  John Linder

  Country, Men, Iraq

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• Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

  Eugene Linden

  Lying, Self, Years

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

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• At the end of the day we are not selling, we are serving.

  Dave Ramsey

  The End Of The Day, Selling, Ends

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• The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates.

  Frans de Waal

  Struggle, Animal, Blow

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• I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Thinking, Self, True Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

  Mother Teresa

  God Is Love, Prove, Has Beens

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• Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Sacrifice, Men

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• Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Population, Rich

  "NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

  Marie Corelli

  Country, War, Men

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• Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

  John M. Perkins

  Godly, Recognition, Serving Others

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• Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Boston, Talking

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• The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

  Thomas Woods

  Self, Doe, Absurd

  Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Kevin R. C. Gutzman (2008). “Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush”, p.92, Crown Forum

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• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

  J. I. Packer

  Husband, Love You, Wife

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• I'd have no problem serving under any president.

  Michael Mullen

  President, Problem, No Problem

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• In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

  B. F. Skinner

  Children, Deserve You, World

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Self, Assuming

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.276, A&C Black

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