"Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well."

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Motivation Quotes #Organization Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press
“It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.”
“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.”
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.”
“At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2004.
“Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.7, Random House
“Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team”
“It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.”

Source : "Lapine, Fontana, and Shalhoub Talk Moss Hart And ‘Act One’". Interview with Rob Weinert-Kendt, www.americantheatre.org. April 9, 2014.

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