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We're teetering on the edge of becoming more competitive, and if you tip the balance back, in the end it will hurt employees.


Hannes Hesse

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KELLY JONES This is the way we fall. First we lose our balance, teetering precariously on the edge of uncertaint...
CASSIA LEO Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica...
THE EDGE We've always tried to do different things with the sound of the band, but with this record we've tri...
THE EDGE You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ...
THE EDGE Most groups, I think, would have been taking their foot of the gas at this point. But we have the ex...
THE EDGE One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community,...
THE EDGE We want this record to be something that people really listen to, rather than just have in their rec...
THE EDGE A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in th...
THE EDGE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER You're teetering on the edge and you hear nothing but the sound of air and the loudest train wreck p...
PAVLE JOVANOVIC Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI Teetering on the edge of comfortable brings us closer to ourselves and each other.
COLLEEN MARIOTTI Particularly the East Coast could soon be teetering on the edge of shortage.
DANIEL YERGIN Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.
MICHAEL KORDA VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH According to Newtonian 3rd law in physics life, nature all that we do is governed by a equal or oppo...
GARY F EVANS... In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
JUDY GREER At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
NATASHA RICHARDSON You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ...
HO CHI MINH I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.
VICTORIA AVEYARD To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Changing the way we pay our employees is going to take our competitive edge away,
BOB WHITE A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge...
JOE COCKER I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
WIZKID In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really ma...
ERIC HOFFER Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a ...
SAKURA TSUKUBA These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
JACK VANCE Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
GEORGE MICHAEL Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS If we look at the balance between good and evil, our world as it is has an imbalance of evil and it ...
GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS If you're living on the edge, then when the price of gas and heating oil goes up, you end up over th...
BILL CHENEY It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER I’m so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish
J.A. REDMERSKI A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intenti...
TIM HUNT I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
ILONA ANDREWS This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
CIARA We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
HALE IRWIN In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. KNIGHT I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon ...
RICK YANCEY We were kind of teetering back and forth on the verge of coming back (when Parsley hit his homer). T...
STEVE COOK It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurio...
REUVEN RIVLIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
ERIC BRAEDEN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and han...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
RICHELLE MEAD Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent.
TOBA BETA

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Departs, so life at every ...
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sie schimmern hell wie...
HERMANN HESSE When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: B...
HERMANN HESSE When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...
HERMANN HESSE No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found...
HERMANN HESSE When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...
HERMANN HESSE I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the ...
HERMAN HESSE I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am...
HERMANN HESSE O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...
HERMANN HESSE When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily
happen that the only thing his...
HERMANN HESSE It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for thi...
HERMAN HESSE If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b...
HERMAN HESSE If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of our...
HERMANN HESSE Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after the...
HERMANN HESSE I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we...
HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMAN HESSE Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,...
HERMANN HESSE The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r...
HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille...
HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of o...
HERMANN HESSE Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c...
HERMANN HESSE There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter...
MONICA HESSE I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ...
HERMANN HESSE I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...
HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op...
HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
HERMANN HESSE To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo...
HERMANN HESSE It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read ...
HERMAN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It...
HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMANN HESSE For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I...
HERMAN HESSE The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo...
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