Clarence Francis Quotes

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Clarence Francis

• Loyalty
• Souls
• Enthusiasm
• Devotion
• Earn

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
  • Immigration

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Why
  • Golf
  • Act

• My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Trying
  • History
  • Focus

• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Practice

• Codeine...bourbon...

  

  Tallulah Bankhead

• Great music is great music, period.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Great
  • Music
  • Period

• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Creativity

• But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Facts
  • Impossible
  • Dislike

• What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Reason
  • Devotion
  • Purity

• The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Souls
  • Torture
  • Wounded

• You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

  

  Clarence Francis
  • Loyalty
  • Souls
  • Enthusiasm