"Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities."

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Peter Drucker

#Opportunity Quotes #Problem Quotes #Solve Quotes

“The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.”
“There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.”
“I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.”
“In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.”
“Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.”
“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

Source : "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.
“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”
“I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.”

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