"A good strategy focuses efforts on a target, and that focus can only be achieved by not diffusing energy in other directions - that is the meaning of Michael Porter's dictum of "choosing what not to do." At the same time, a good strategy chooses the right target to focus on, not wasting the focus of energy on a target that cannot be affected or that is unimportant - that is the meaning of Drucker's distinction between efficiency and effectiveness."

-- Richard P. Rumelt

#Focus Quotes #Effort Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Racism is the snobbery of the poor.”

Source : Raymond Aron (1968). “Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society”
“Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they arenâ€™t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.”
“There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.”
“Great peace is found in little busy-ness.”
“Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror of another's story, we can discover our tragedy and our comedy-and therefore our very human-ness, the ambiguity and incongruity, that lie at the core of the human condition.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.63, Bantam
“God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.”

Source : Thomas Keating (1997). “Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer”, p.52, A&C Black
“You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.”

Source : "Charlotte II: Burton, Johnson post-race transcript". Interview, www.motorsport.com. October 15, 2006.
“I actually eat a lot.”

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