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“In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.”

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Mary Parker Follett was an outstanding social worker, born on September 3, 1868, and died on December 18, 1933. Known for her innovative social work methods and leadership, she had a profound impact on the development of modern social work. more

“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. 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.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.”

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Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.”

Book Turns Reading Difficult Struggle Questioning Difficult Times Book Reading Questioning Why

Author:Halle Berry

“Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.”

Should Easier Harder Pregnant

Author:Halle Berry

“... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.”

Writing Decision Safe

Author:Anne Rice

“Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.”

World Past Mortals Superstitions Contradictory Nonsensical

Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.”

World States Voice Grace Excellence Tunes Inward Wiser Clamor

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.”

People Ifs Feels Believe Real Pain Figures Authority Doctors Madness Hearing Priests Sexism Submit Psychiatrist Hysteria Inadequacy Authority Figures

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”

People Ifs Self States Opportunity Sides Moral Imagine Conditions Down And Sensitive Pregnancy Spheres Twilight Imagine That Pregnant Strain Melting Exalted Pregnant Women

Book:Misconceptions

Source: Misconceptions

“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”

Thinking Persons Country Whole White Race Vision Racism Claims Relation Fog Slow Down Race Relations Impediments Whole Truth

Author:Naomi Wolf

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