#showing

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#average #average people #consists #good #good leadership

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#average people #consists #good #how #management

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#die #end #englishmen #fighting #out

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#break #cannot #showing #spouse #you

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you. ↗

— Danielle Dax

#apart #band #complete #doing #feel

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#come #country #door #few #few people