Crankiness Quotes

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. (James Russell Lowell)
Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful. View quote
Ursula Burns
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Could the Church of Work-which today has Americans aspiring to sleep deprivation the way they once aspired to a personal knowledge of God-be, at base, an anti-democratic force? Well, yes. James Russell Lowell, that nineteenth-century workhorse, summed it all up quite neatly: "There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and sav­ing it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”. View quote
Mark Slouka