Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Among the worlds 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
In a globalized economy, it's very difficult for the U. K. to go it alone. Don't listen to politicians. Politicians say if the U. K. leaves, things will be better. I'm telling you, leaving could make things worse.
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another
Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.