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Quote by James C. Collins

“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”

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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

“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”

World Children Moving Found Causes Laughing Magic Cry Extraordinary Impress

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”

Said Past Stars Wonderful Missing Wings Flying Silver Honey Far Away Awestruck

Book:Matilda

Source: Matilda

“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”

Years Silence

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”

World Blind Blindness

Author:Jose Saramago

“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.”

Men World Want Needs Silence Notes Witty March Organs Yards Grandeur Cathedrals Chatter Farce Ethereal Deluge

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.”

Men Firsts Looks Has Beens Week Hot Trailers

Book:Cruddy: A Novel

Source: Cruddy: A Novel

“Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.”

People Path Crosses Right Thing

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time”

Play Lasts Broken Instruments Strings Last Time

Author:John Green

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