"To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around."

-- Henry Mintzberg

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“What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.”
“Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.69, Open Road Media
“When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.”
“I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.”
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance”
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl is really good-looking, but a girl can be not super good-looking and it'd still be a really good photograph. I ask people to send some photos of where they live if that's where I'm shooting. I go for shabby places over too-nice places, because most of these girls are going to look better if they're not made to look rich.”

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