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Sticks Quotes - Page 4

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

"How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us ... (and Our Daughters): The Measuring Stick Principle" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

"The Social Construction of Reality". Book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966.

The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

"Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt