“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Category: Quotations
"When you hear the media reporting on something you know about you wonder…
“When you hear the media reporting on something you know about it makes you wonder how misled you are being on things that you don’t.”
Unknown – from a tweet by someone, but I can’t find it, so can’t be completely accurate about what it said, but the sentiment is correct
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the…
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility!
Soren Kierkegaard
Groups become great only when everyone…
Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best. … The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.
Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius
The secret of your success is determined by…
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
John C. Maxwell
"I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in…
“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
Banksy
“A man should never be promoted to a managerial position if…
“A man should never be promoted to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”
Peter Drucker
"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to…
“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
Peter Drucker
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go…
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
Wendell Berry
"Once you label me you negate me…
“Once you label me you negate me.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The least productive people are usually the ones who…
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.”
Thomas Sowell
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but…
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Vincent Van Gogh
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