"The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future."

-- Mary Parker Follett

#Leadership Quotes #Past Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”
“With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.”
“The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others and they live apart for many years.”
“For some reason, President Obama is being heckled about "don't ask, don't tell," which may be revoked. The president wants gays to be allowed to serve openly in the military.”
“And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.”
“People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.”
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, heâ€™d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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