Zitat des Tages über Verdient / Earned:
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
For a Punjabi singer to find acceptance down South is a tall task. I'm glad I earned their love and respect.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
The Kardashian family have earned their place as an American dynasty.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
I just fooled around in front of the camera and earned money for it. Every policeman, every soldier, every nurse - they all do more for society. I just rent my face.
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
