A Quote by Daniel Seligman

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Daniel Seligman

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Like Martini Only Raise Spirit

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Daniel Seligman
American - Columnist
September 25, 1924 - January 31, 2009

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.

Robert De Niro

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

Bob Shacochis

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Khalil Gibran

Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.

Andrew J Dubrin

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Duane Elgin

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

P. J. O'Rourke

How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink." This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?" "A martini." "A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview." "It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it.

Richelle Mead

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Frank Herbert

A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

Henny Youngman

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Bob Schieffer

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.