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If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well; If at first you do not succeed, try, try again; If God had meant us to fly, he would have given us wings; If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there would be no work for tinkers; If it ain't broke, don't fix it; If it were not for hope the heart would break; If it were a snake, it would have bit you
A purple crocodile is now a metaphor for unhelpful officialdom in the Netherlands. A jobsworth is a person who uses the (typically small) authority of their job in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner.
A similar phrase, "One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio. [4] Early use of the exact phrase appears in a 1918 newspaper advertisement for the San Antonio Light, which says: One of the Nation's Greatest Editors Says: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
"For anybody out there still on their journey, still struggling to find their way, whatever it is that you do: Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it isn't happening," Moore said.
There is a need for constant positive feedback from others for these individuals to maintain their feelings of self-worth. The necessity of repeated praise can be associated with boastful, arrogant behavior or sometimes even aggressive and hostile feelings toward anyone who questions the individual's self-worth, an example of threatened egotism.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.
Here's the net worth you need in 2025 to rank in the top 25%, 10%, 0.1% of Americans — how do you stack up right now? Chris Clark. January 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM.
Musk claimed on X that his Department of Government Efficiency "discovered" that FEMA spent over $50 million to "luxury" hotels for "migrant housing," and doing so violated the president's ...