"The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a means to accomplish great things - except love and relationship are not what is really wanted. We want to appear relational so people will like what we have to offer. It's the difference between wanting a good marriage and loving the person you married."

-- Scot McKnight

#School Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.”
“If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.”
“The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.”
“The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.”
“The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.”

Source : Bob Burg, John David Mann (2007). “The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.92, Penguin
“Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome.”
“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”
“All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.”

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