What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!
I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me
I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.