Quotes by Authors - Page 326

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.
Marnie Grundman
The blessing begins at home.
Taka Sande
Can I sleep with you?" asked Oz. "Kinda scary in my room. Pretty sure I saw a troll in the corner." Lou said, "Get up here." Oz climbed next to her. Oz suddenly looked troubled. "When you get married, who am I going to come get in bed with when I'm scared, Lou?" "One day you're gonna get bigger than me, then I'm going to be running to you when I get scared." "How do you know that?" "Because that's the deal God makes between big sisters and their little brothers.
Baldacci
This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.
Nayomi Munaweera
I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only normal one.
Nina Stibbe
A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.
Taka Sande
In the beginning God did not make a church or cathedral, he made a family. In the beginning God did not appoint apostles, or prophets, or pastors etc, he appointed a husband and a wife in the covenant of marriage. In Genesis, the first mankind gathering was a wedding ceremony, and not a worship meeting. After God, the next thing that came was marriage.
Taka Sande
As for you, do not wait until all lights are green to take off. Do not wait for all things to be in order such that they can see the future. You have to start were you are. You have to start now. You have to take action and make the commitment today. Do not accept to live another day in a miserable marriage. Apply what you are learning today and create the change that you want.
Taka Sande
Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ keeps the ‘body’!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
An orange day, a happy day, a brand-new day in the secret language that only the three of us seemed to understand."Mmmmm," Daddy said, taking a bite of his roll. "Orange wakes you up, but cinnamon makes you remember.
Judith Fertig
There’s no such thing as half family.
Sasha Martin
Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.
Trevor Noah
Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concerned was the greatest television show ever made. Hee Haw. While Roy and Buck sang the opening song, everyone would bicker and talk back and forth, what was better about the show, the music or the humor, what have you, the natural result of 40 people crowded around one rabbit eared television set. But once Hee Haw started, the talking was over. After that, it was all about the love. And so was everything before, really.
Brian Holers
Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien.Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast.
Brandon Sanderson
If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.
Eric Wilson
The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.
Victor Hugo
In my family strange is relative.
Kate Rockland
Your best is good enough.
Vivian E. Greenberg
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy Allison
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
Sarah Dessen
the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Karl Taro Greenfeld
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
Maggie Stiefvater
Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
Rebecca Wells
Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family.
Ally Carter
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
Brady Udall
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
Maya Angelou
When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
Stan Slap
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
Stan Slap
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Stan Slap
The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.
Stan Slap
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Stan Slap
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Stan Slap
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Stan Slap
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Stan Slap
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Stan Slap
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Stan Slap
Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.
Stan Slap
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
Stan Slap
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Stan Slap
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
Stan Slap
Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.
Stan Slap
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Stan Slap
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Stan Slap
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Stan Slap
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Stan Slap
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Stan Slap
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Stan Slap
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
Stan Slap
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
Stan Slap
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
Stan Slap
What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.
Stan Slap
Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.
Stan Slap
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
Stan Slap
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Stan Slap