But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew.
~By James Frank ~
I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
~By Alan Ladd ~
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
~By Tom Selleck ~
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
~By Edmund S. Muskie ~
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
~By John Owen ~
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
If you fire people, you fire customers.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer.
~By John Lynch ~
Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
~By Albert Camus ~
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
~By Charles Davenport ~
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
~By David Obey ~
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
~By Roger Staubach ~
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
~By Rene Descartes ~
I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
~By Brian Tracy ~
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
~By Will Durant ~
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
~By Leo Burnett ~
As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
~By Mario Batali ~
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
~By Jean Froissart ~
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
~By Peter Kropotkin ~
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
Custom is the great guide to human life.
~By David Hume ~
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~By Tom Peters ~
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
~By John W. Thompson ~
I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
~By John Wanamaker ~
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
~By Les Brown ~
Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
~By Paul Graham ~
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
~By Jesse Helms ~
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.
~By Mick Miller ~
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
~By Daniel Drew ~
Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.
~By Stuart Rose ~
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
~By Jef Raskin ~
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
~By James J. Gibson ~
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
~By Peter Drucker ~
We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
~By Harry Johnston ~
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
~By Helen Rowland ~
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
~By Blaise Pascal ~
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
~By Merton Miller ~
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
~By Lee Scott ~
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
~By John Wanamaker ~
It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
~By Jeff Zucker ~
Custom is second nature.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
~By David Milne ~
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
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