We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
Actually, I have never been a great fan of martial arts competitions. Not even when I was training martial arts myself.
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Never complain and never explain.
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
