"The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble."

-- Mary Parker Follett

#Leadership Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted. And we really need to begin to challenge, look at it, and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.”

Source : "A call to men". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.
“You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.”
“He spilled my diet soda!”
“History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.”
“suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.”

Source : Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”
“In the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu was very brave and won many battles, but in the end he failed. Treat people with sincerity and build a good organization. Otherwise, it doesnâ€™t matter how famous or how capable you are.”

Source : "On Corporate Strategy". Shantou University Business School Economic Forum, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.
“People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.”
“In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.150

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