#weeds

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. ↗

— Jack Welch

#developing #gardener #had #i #job

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#grows #hard #hard work #nothing #weeds

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#left #live #long #once #them

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens. ↗

— Mark Boal

#down #exactly #feature #feature film #film

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#call #fear #garden #keep #mind

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#get #know #once #them #too

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#flowers #grow #like #little #seeds

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#corn #gene #herbicides #kill #makes

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#rate #regulations #same #weeds