Dennis Bakke famous quotes

What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Generosity #Giving #Forever

When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Hands #People #Leader

Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Humility #Decision #Advice

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Children #People #Adults

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Exercise #People #Achievement

A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.
-- Dennis Bakke

#Fun #Team #Real

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

Is she forever for you then? She's worth throwing it all away?" "She's it. No one else. She's all I'm ever going to want.

In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.