"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

-- Peter Drucker

#Asking Questions Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Economy Quotes

“If what you're doing isn't working, change it.”
“I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into a monster. Which she wasn't. She was a human: somebody who loved me and somebody with a problem.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.”
“The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.”

Source : "Actress Sara Rue talks 'Dorfman in Love,' 'Popular,' 'Malibu Country'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. March 22, 2013.
“Solitude was no reason for sloppiness”
“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.242, LSU Press
“Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.”

Source : Thomas Hutchinson (2010). “The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson”, p.18, Applewood Books
“By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?”

Source : "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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