Derek Geer > Derek's Quotes

“Low employee engagement is a symptom of a suboptimal workplace culture”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“The stark truth was enough. It rearranged priorities and brought clarity, relief, and humor.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which together with supporting units, formed a regiment and the battalions making up the regiment were identified by both their number and the title of the regiment. This meant that the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was identified by the initials of 1RAR. The two other battalions were identified as 2RAR or 3RAR. At the height of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Australia had a total of nine battalions which were later called the First Division.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“That kind of leader usually manages to show up whenever there’s a culture in crisis. People get scared stupid, and they listen to anybody who sounds like he has a plan to get them out of the jam they’re in.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Mountain Mother Cipher

“Your physical and emotional health are in danger.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“You’re like that black-and-yellow strip of tape the police stretch across a crime scene. Everything about you screams ‘do not cross.’ And like my friends down south say, my momma didn’t raise no fool. I know a dangerous woman when I see one.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.”
― Kathryn Stockett

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Blessed art thou among women.” Who can’t relate to a line like that? It’s just saying you’re one holy chick and everyone, even God, is totally into you.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on.”
― Daniel Quinn, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest