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Wess Roberts
"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control."
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Source : Wess Roberts (1998). “Protect Your Achilles Heel: Crafting Armor for the New Age at Work”, Andrews McMeel Pub
Wess Roberts
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“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”
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“Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.”
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“You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.”
Source : "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.
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“Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper”
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“We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.”
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“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.”
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“Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.”
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“The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.”