"Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management."

-- William Redington Hewlett

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.”
“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
“Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them.”
“The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game”
“Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.”
“I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.”
“I don't think lesbians should be allowed to use dildos, afterall they've made their choice”
“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”

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