A Quote by Ayn Rand

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Ayn Rand

Quote Topics

Ask Human Human Spirit Mediocre Someone Spirit Way Work

Quote Author

Ayn Rand
Russian - Writer
February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Horton Foote

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

Norm Coleman

Video marketing is the most effective way for you to get someone's attention and engage them for a substantial period of time. Keeping someone engaged is the best and quickest way to gain their trust. Gaining trust is the only way to convert your audience into happy, long-term clients/customers/subscribers.

David Grimes

Rem: The way to kill a shinigami is to make them fall in love with a human. Misa: What a wonderful way to kill.

Tsugumi Ohba

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

Pope Shenouda III

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

Marina Abramovic

The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

Allison Pearson

The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more.

Matthew Barnett

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

James Cameron

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

Josh Billings

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

Jim McKelvey

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Sue Grafton

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

John Taylor Gatto

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

Douglas Coupland

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.