Jon C. Madonna famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.
-- Jon C. Madonna

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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
Learn from yesterday, live for today...
To-day is always different from yesterday.
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
Power is the flower of organization.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

Jon C. Madonna famous quotes

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