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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
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Time to Kill
“And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell...for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is to go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.”
― Charles Frazier, quote from Cold Mountain
“In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely, that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman’s confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the Abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division?”
― Jane Austen, quote from The Complete Novels
“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”
― Jonathan Swift, quote from Gulliver's Travels
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