"Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other."

-- David Sills

#Important Quotes #Missionary Quotes

“The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.”

Source : "What You See Is What You Get: Marvin Bell in Conversation". Interview with Haines Eason, www.poets.org. August 20, 2009.
“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.”
“... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.”
“People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'”

Source : Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall
“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”
“The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.”
“If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.”

Source : "Geek cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. April 1, 1996.
“When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.”

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