"A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves."

-- Daniel H. Pink

#Leadership Quotes #Organization Quotes #People Quotes

“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
“The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.”
“I enjoy sports in person.”
“Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.”
“She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.”
“I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to know about each other. Photography gives us that opportunity.”
“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.”
“Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Cowley Publications

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