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Personal Quotes (page 184)

Chelsea Handler quote: "You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you..."
You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself. Chelsea Handler
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in..."
Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances. Jean-Paul Sartre
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact. Stephen Fry
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person? beguiled, enchanted. Mary Ellen Chase
Haruki Murakami quote: "A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by..."
A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by pride, alone the prospects were too dark. Way too dark. Haruki Murakami
When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their... Alexander Hamilton
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country..."
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. Ambrose Bierce
And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well... Plato
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night"
Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what..."
Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud. Laurell K. Hamilton
Haruki Murakami quote: "A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't..."
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. Haruki Murakami
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men..."
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
there are things in life which one can confide in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because of this that I write to my mother without the knowl- edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite uninteresting, or, rather, . unnecessary. Anton Chekhov
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live. Albert Camus
There is a word that comes to my mind when I think about our company and our people. That word is 'love.' I love Starbucks because everything we've tried to do is steeped in humanity. Respect and dignity. Passion and laughter. Compassion, community, and responsibility. Authenticity. These are Starbucks' touchstones, the source of our pride. Valuing personal connections at a time when so many people sit alone in front of screens; aspiring to build human relationships in an age when so many... Howard Schultz

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