A Quotes
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“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
Source: Post-Capitalist Society
“A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .”
“A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.”
“A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.”
“A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.”
“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”
“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”
“A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.”
“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”
“A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.”
Source: Weaver on Strategy
“A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.”
“A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.”
“A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.”
“A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.”
Source: Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, And Leave Competitors In the Dust
“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.”
Source: Managing for the Future
“A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“A manera de resumen, cuando digo «carácter revolucionario» no me refiero a un concepto conductal sino a un concepto dinámico. Uno no es un «revolucionario» en este sentido caracterológico porque profiera frases revolucionarias o porque participe en una revolución. En este sentido es revolucionario el hombre que se haya emancipado de los lazos de sangre y suelo, de su madre y su padre, de fidelidades especiales al Estado, clase, raza, partido o religión. El carácter revolucionario es un humanista en el sentido en que siente en sí mismo a toda la humanidad, y en que nada humano le es ajeno. Ama y respeta la vida. Es un escéptico y un hombre de fe.
Es escéptico, pues sospecha que las ideologías encubren realidades indeseables. Es un hombre de fe, pues cree en aquello que existe potencialmente, aunque todavía no haya nacido. Puede decir «no» y ser desobediente precisamente porque puede decir «sí» y obedecer a aquellos principios que le son genuinamente propios. No está semidormido sino plenamente despierto ante las realidades personales y sociales que lo rodean. Es independiente; lo que es lo debe a su propio esfuerzo; es libre y no es sirviente de nadie.
Este resumen puede sugerir que lo que acabo de describir es bienestar y salud mental antes que el concepto de un carácter revolucionario. No hay duda de que la descripción hecha corresponde a la de una persona sana, viva, cuerda. Mi afirmación es que la persona sana en un mundo insano, el ser humano plenamente desarrollado en un mundo tullido, la persona completamente despierta en un mundo semidormido, es precisamente el carácter revolucionario. Una vez que todo estén despiertos ya no habrá necesidad de profetas o caracteres revolucionarios: sólo habrá seres humanos plenamente desarrollados.”
Source: La Condicion Humana Actual y Otros Temas de la Vida Contemporanea
“A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?”
“A Manifesto for Introverts
1. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads too much': thinkers.
2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised to know their own strengths.
4. Sometimes it helps to be a pretend extrovert. There will always be time to be quiet later.
5. But in the long run, staying true to your temperament is key to finding work you love and work that matters.
6. One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
7. It's OK to cross the street to avoid making small talk.
8. 'Quiet leadership' is not an oxymoron.
9. Love is essential; gregariousness is optional.
10. 'In a gentle way, you can shake the world.' -Mahatma Gandhi”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”
“A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.”
Source: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“A manipulator puts his hand on your shoulder to sit on your neck.”
“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.”
“A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.”
Source: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”
“A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.”
Source: Living In God's Power
“A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.”
“A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.”
“A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.”
“A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's an opening of a conversation between the heart and the mind.”
Source: Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation
“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.”
“A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.”
“A mantra isn't just a repetition of words or phrases; it's a sacred journey into the intricate layers of life and the cosmic consciousness.”
Source: Mantra Design Fundamentals - Basics of mantra forms, structures, compositions, and formulas
“A Manuela dissonava ao abraçar os antagonismos longe da frente. Enamorava-se sem estorvos por um E Tudo o Vento Levou, com as senhoras apresadas nos estilhaços das escaramuças dos homens. Abalava-se com um Casablanca, em que a subordinação face a outro povo traz um fantasma nostálgico que lamuria o hino da França. Cantarolava, de olhos gotejados, todo o Música No Coração, onde a perfídia nazi desalojava o núcleo central do filme. Tudo isto açucaradamente envolto em histórias de amor intemporais (simplórias), traziam-lhe distensões aos lábios, aparições de dentes alvos, clap clap, prantos de comoção. Para a Manuela a guerra não era mestiere de tecnologia, estratégia, tanques, carnificina, estropiados, tripas e sangue. Para a Manuela, também a guerra era um assunto de mulheres – cartas, lágrimas, saudade. A guerra era o reflexo no semblante da enfermeira, sombrio, inconfessado, a nuvem nos seus olhos, as vigílias de cotovelos no parapeito a aguardar o regresso do soldado. Às vezes a tua mãe resultava-me bastante obtusa. Então fi-la implodir e, como consequência, quase me vi sem ela. Não me tinha dado conta de que a sua força fosse tão marcescível.”
Source: Os Pássaros
“a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.”
Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie
“A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.”
“A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.”
Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book
“A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.”
“A man’s best friend is a good wife.”
“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.”
“A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.”
“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;
“A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.”
Source: It's in his kiss
“A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”
“A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.”
Source: Literary Values and Other Papers
“A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”
Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
“A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have its own voice. It is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to look: Discover this, reexamine that, put one thing in relation to another, orient yourself, begin here... Sometimes a map speaks in terms of physical geography, but just as often it muses on the jagged terrain of the heart, the distant vistas of memory, or the fantastic landscapes of dreams.”
Source: The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
“A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.”
Source: West with the Night