"Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry."

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Source : Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.33, Penguin

Charles Stross

#Sorry Quotes #Oxygen Quotes #Gone Quotes

“For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.”
“Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.”
“[Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.”
“Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.”
“Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.”
“The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.”

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