When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us. . . Nothing just stops and stays. . . But it flows on. . . Like a river.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. . . is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.
It's the start that stops most people.
We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.