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Price Pritchett has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by…
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Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or…
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The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and…
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Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
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Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to…
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You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
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Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
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Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it…
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals…
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If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the…
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Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get…
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Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing…
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
— Jay McInerney
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
— Willa Cather
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is…
— Confucius
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
— Edgar Friedenberg
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of…
— Tom Robbins
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