We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
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.
I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No. " "I want to. " "Well, you go then. " You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it
We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.
Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.