"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."

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Norman Schwarzkopf

#Relationship Quotes #Helping Quotes #Hills Quotes

“Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.”

Source : Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage
“Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet...”
“My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.”

Source : Sharon Creech (2009). “Granny Torrelli Makes Soup”, p.5, Harper Collins
“There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.”
“President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.”
“Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control. So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.”
“I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.”

Source : "Paul Scheer picks his favorite How Did This Get Made? episodes". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. February 7, 2013.
“There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.”

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