"You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority."

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Source : Richard N. Haass (1999). “The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization”, p.117, Brookings Institution Press

Richard N. Haass

#Leadership Quotes #Effectiveness Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.”
“As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.”
“They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.”
“If itâ€™s over, then donâ€™t let the past screw up the rest of your life.”
“Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.”
“I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.”
“Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.”
“We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.”

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