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Quotes About Serving

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.
~ George C. Wolfe
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.
~ Mike Pence
After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a plate. Once the moisture has been released, you can carefully pick up the fillet with a slotted spatula and transfer it to another plate for saucing. This way, you won't sog out your beautiful sauce.
~ Tom Douglas
Loving as He loves, Helping as He helps, Giving as He gives, Serving as He serves, Rescuing as He rescues, Being with Him twenty-four hours, Touching Him in his distressing disguise.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
O Nanak, serve with this intuitive awareness; only that which is pleasing to the Lord is approved.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
~ Thomas Paine
Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
~ Hal Sparks
Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance. "Come," he told her. "Put your costume
~ Michael Chabon
If you find a neighbor in need, you're responsible for serving that neighbor in need, you're responsible for loving a neighbor just like you'd like to love yourself.
~ George W. Bush
Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The
~ Frank Viola
An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent.
~ Brandon Sanderson
those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Are we really servants when we can become masters again once we think we have done our part or made our contribution? Are we really servants when we can say when, where, and how long we will give of our time and energy? Is service in a far country really an expression of servanthood when we keep enough money in the bank to fly home at any moment?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
~ Aminu Kano
The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven by service to others. The word ministry translates the Greek word diakonia, which means service. The church must be about serving others. When a church can lay claim to all three criteria, namely, preaching of the Word, being true to its confession, and focusing on serving, then it's a church worth going to. And then it's a church full of sermons worth listening to.
~ Stephen J. Nichols
In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve. And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point.
~ Steven Erikson
The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.
~ Brad D. Smith
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
~ Taylor Hicks
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
~ A. R. Rahman
I just want to be given respect and dignity that every senior player deserves after serving the country for so many years.
~ Shahid Afridi
The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
~ Thomas Merton
People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.
~ Brian Wansink
Serving sizes start to make sense only when foods are individually packaged.
~ Brian Wansink