Robert R. Shannon famous quotes

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
-- Robert R. Shannon

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Wasted time means wasted lives.
-- Robert R. Shannon

#Time #Mean #Wasted Life

Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.
-- Robert R. Shannon

#Jobs #Real #Thinking

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

Excitement always leads to tears.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.