It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.
the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.
I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. . . . Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
I'm starting my own family and there is no other feeling like it.
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.