Markita Thane > Markita's Quotes

“If climate drives business results, what drives climate? 50-70% of how employees perceive their organization’s climate corresponds to the actions of one person: their manager.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

“Outlier complacency' is a heuristic that allows a person to enjoy the thrill of danger associated with the possible negative outcome of an activity or event because they take comfort in the reality that the likelihood of an actual negative outcome is statistically low.”
― J.K. Franko

“But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after”
― Janet Fitch

“You’ve heard the wonderful news, I presume?” “No. Has Mr. Trump died?”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

“You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“If Frank were to see me like this,” she thought, “he would put me to bed with a couple of sleeping pills, and call that smug Dr. Mensley to have a look at my mind. And Dr. Mensley would check my ambivalences and my repressions and my narcissistic, voyeuristic, masochistic impulses. He would tighten my screws and readjust me to reality, fit me into a comfortable groove, and take the pale beast out of me to make me a talking doll.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Dark Benediction

“Did she really believe that love, once gained, couldn't be torn asunder by doubts and fears, and could never, never be put back together again?”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“Return with the shield or on it”
― Frank Miller, 300

“Maybe time is like that insect," Blink said, "trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.”
― Brian Selznick, The Marvels

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“It is where we do not live that the dying comes.”
― Eve Ensler

“Zakhor, Al Tichkah.' Souviens-toi. N'oublie jamais.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key