"Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes #Hey Quotes

“The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.”
“I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could follow me at my bar-mitzvah. It was over when I was done.”
“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.”

Source : Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.16, University of Georgia Press
“Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not.”
“I would love to have my own lingerie line.”
“Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!”
“Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.”
“The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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