Brian Corby quotes

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.
-- Brian Corby

#Long #Trying #Employment

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.