There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley Category: Career, Vocation
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin Category: Career, Vocation
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off? – Joan Manley Category: Career, Vocation
Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes. – Michael Lipsey Category: Career, Vocation
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell Category: War
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus Category: Conformity
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan Category: Politics
If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down? – Author Unknown Category: Anger
