"If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules."

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Source : "Democracy in the workplace". Interview with Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.

Ricardo Semler

#School Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“She saved my life...and Iâ€™ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.”
“The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently and nothing can be done, and no move made, until "a nice cup of tea" is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time.”

Source : "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".
“For someone to believe in you, is always the best feeling in the world”
“If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.”
“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
“As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.”
“It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If you #â€Ž fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your #â€Ž success . You can only know the sweet taste of #â€Ž victory after many bitter struggles.”

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