"When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader."

-- Liz Murray

#Respect Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.”

Source : Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”
“Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.”
“What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.”
“Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.”
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”
“Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.”

Source : Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct
“To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.44

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