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Quote by James C. Collins

“Change your practices without abandoning your core values.”

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James C. Collins was an American author known for his works in the fields of business management and organizational leadership. His writings delve into the key factors of corporate success and how individuals and teams can achieve excellence. more

“One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.”

“You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.”

People Wells Looks Littles Success Games Winning Fun Impossible Pressure Yeah Series League Good Times Having A Good Time Little League

Author:Derek Jeter

“Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.”

Ends Government Poverty Economic Army Paid Crisis Winter East Disaster Bitter Saving Desperate Fund Gates Pills Savings Unemployed Anecdotes Cushions Economic Crisis Docks Syrup Handouts

Author:Melanie McGrath

“You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.”

Littles Television Perspective Comfortable Neighborhood Just Live

Author:Craig Venter

“I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.”

People Thinking Faces Quality Hell Late Definitions Staring Too Late

Author:E. O. Wilson

“In the end, winning is sleeping better.”

Ends Winning Sleep

Author:Jodie Foster

“Find yourself by losing yourself for others.”

Losing Finding Yourself Losing Yourself

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Appreciated

Author:William James

“It is a shameful thing to insult a child.”

Children Insult Shameful

Author:Mark Twain

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