"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Life Quotes #Leadership Quotes #Order Quotes

“A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.”
“It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
“The point is... you'd better figure out what your Customers - the Customers you want - value. Because that's what they'll buy. Anything else is a waste of their money, and they'll figure that out in a hurry.”

Source : Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley
“Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.”
“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”
“Writerâ€™s block is only a failure of the ego.”
“He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.”
“I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.”

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