"By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy."

-- Don Johnston

#Decision Quotes #Three Quotes #Matter Quotes

“People will respect you more if you are honest with them.”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.123, A&C Black
“Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.”
“I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.”
“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.”
“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed â€¦ Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”
“Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person”

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