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“As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be present when your customers and team mebers most need you. And should you feel your enegery lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear - and make their day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“OUR WORKPLACE As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be there when your customers and team members most need you. And should you feel your energy lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear—and make their day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“It may sound a little sappy, but I believe I have an obligation to seek out and find ways to demonstrate my gratitude for this life I enjoy.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“We call that make their day. We look for as many ways as we can to create great memories. And we create great memories whenever we make someone’s day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“find creative ways to engage our customers. That’s the key word: engage.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“We spent a lot of time talking about this choice, and we realized that as long as we are going to be at work, we might as well have the best day we can have.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“Choose Your Attitude—The fish guys are aware that they choose their attitude each day. One of the fish guys said, “When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you being impatient and bored, or are you being world famous? You are going to act differently if you are being world famous.” Who do we want to be while we do our work?”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“that goes well, we will follow with discussions of Raving Fans, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Gung Ho!; and The Road Less Traveled. All of these books can help us understand”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“But to take no action is to fail for sure. I might as well get started. My first step is to choose my attitude.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“First, by accepting that you choose your attitude, you demonstrate a level of personal accountability and proactivity”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be there when your customers and team members most need you. And should you feel your energy lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear—and make their day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.”
― Alastair Reynolds, quote from Revelation Space
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder. I think this is true even for normal children. I have watched little children learning to walk; they all struggle and fall down many times. Their faces show that it is not easy. It would be stupid to tie bricks on them to make it harder. If that is true for learning to walk, then I think it is true for other growing and learning as well.
God is suppose to be the good parent, the Father. So I think God would not make things harder than they are. I do not think I am autistic because God thought my parents needed a challenge or I needed a challenge. I think it is like if I were a baby and a rock fell on me and broke my leg. Whatever caused it was an accident. God did not prevent the accident, but He did not cause it, either.... I think my autism is an accident, but what I do with it is me.”
― Elizabeth Moon, quote from The Speed of Dark
“Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there’s no point to me being a woman if I never have children.”
“Well, if that’s true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick.” Jettie snorted.”
― Molly Harper, quote from Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. ”
― P.D. James, quote from The Children of Men
“. . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Brothers in Arms
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The Marvels
Extraordinary Means
The Raven King
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