"The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder."

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

Marcus Buckingham

#Determination Quotes #Keys Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"”
“The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.”

Source : Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press
“Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when...”
“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.224, A&C Black
“Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.”

Source : Love Story ch. 13 (1970). In the motion picture this line was changed to "Love means never having to say you're sorry" and become famous in this form.
“Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.”
“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits”

Source : Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

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