"Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman."

-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Children Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books
“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!”

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
“May every memory that you share Of dreams you've seen come true, Help make this special anniversary day A happy one, for the two of you”
“Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.”

Source : "Employment of Naval Forces: 'Who Commands Sea - Commands Trade'". Monthly Newsletter, March 1948.
“Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”
“Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.”

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