This is a tough prompt for me. I used to be an English major. I loved writing (although I was never very good at creative writing or poetry) and I still love to read. I knew a slew of quotations when I was in high school and college, but these days, I prefer to put life in my own terms when I think or talk about things.
But to satisfy the prompt, here are a couple that have stuck with me:
"There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics." Mark Twain.
How very true...And since taking several statistics courses in college (including one that taught you how to tweak your numbers or the wording of your presentation to make the results sway one way or the other) I have taken anything following the phrase "A recent study has shown..." with a grain of salt.
"When the game ends, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."
Ok. So this is a proverb. But it's a good concept to remember.
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I interviewed for a promotion yesterday at work. There is one other person going out for the same position, but I've been kind of passive about the situation. The competitive jerk in me wants some validation--some proof that I'm the better of the two candidates--but the reasonable part of my brain knows it would be better for the other girl to get it, since she's not planning on moving to a different county in less than a year. Which means less turmoil for the department. And less stress for me taking over a position that oversees 5 people with caseloads at 50 each. Although I guess Mom was right when she pointed out that, in my area of work, the turnover is so bad, no one really cares if you're only there 6 months.
It's business as usual.
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