Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.
Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
Agreeing to partition is like allowing someone to come to your house, move into more than half the rooms, steal your furniture, kill and rape your daughters and then tell you to sign on the dotted line. We just can't say yes to that.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
The tough part is when someone asks you to take a pay cut. I don't think that makes sense for a lot of players.
Nine tenths of the callers at the White House want something they ought not to have.
I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.
