"In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting."

-- Marcus Buckingham

#Stupidity Quotes #Disrespect Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create of the situation you find yourself in leads to paralysis and ineffectual behaviour, then throw those damn words away and find yourself a new set. There is always some useful description of the world that empowers and gives you choices and your task, if you are going to use words at all, is to find that set of words.”
“I put myself under immense pressure.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.
“I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.”
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.”
“There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing to be dealing with if you're in the midst of a conversation where the recession profoundly impacts you at the same time because people say well, "Really? What's your issue? I mean you all have money. You all have access."”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”

Source : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1975). “Toward The Future”, Mariner Books
“On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.”
“I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.”

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