“Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.” MindPersonsIndividualAbilityResponsibilityDangerAverageContraryJudgementExceptionalAverage Person Book:On War Source: On War
“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.” PeopleWayGivingStillsChallengesAbilityClassEconomicDangerDependsConflictLowsDignityMajorityWorkersProductivityIncomeTraditionalDecentMinoritiesManualsThis SocietyKnowledge WorkersClass ConflictNew ClassManual Work Author:Peter Drucker
“I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.” MenWayBelieveChildrenRealFacesFightingSexAbilityDangerThousandShadowFairsCharmFrightenedHidingRatiosUnafraidInverseProwessHiding In The Shadows Book:Under the Moons of Mars Source: Under the Moons of Mars
“He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.” FirstsMayAbleAbilityTroubleDangerBuildingFoundationLaysArchitect Book:The Prince Source: The Prince
“Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?” WorldTodayActionPainFacesCoursesAbilityLeaderWonderDangerOvercomingDifficultyChosenDefinedUncertaintyCowardiceBetter OffWorld LeaderToday's World Author:Joshua Fernandez
“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.” KnowsHumansPersonsMomentsCharacterForceHuman BeingsAbilityStrengthHuman NatureDangerBehaviorDecisive MomentsHidden Strength Author:Stefan Zweig
“There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.” RealMatterGovernmentAbilitySecurityInformationDangerInternetMissionsCriticalDiscussionDamageFree SpeechExploitationNational SecuritySignalsHostile Author:Bobby Ray Inman
“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.” PeopleRealArtistTurnsActorsAbilityEmotionCareersWatchesStrengthDangerJudgingEssentialsMarriedComplexesEdgesProfitAppealsVulnerabilityContradictionFascinatingWarmthFierceNaturalism Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.” MenNeedsGivingMayMadeValuesTurnsAbilitySecurityFashionDangerTypeEternalDrawsStandardsPatientAgentsApprovalQuestsVirtuousInterfereDependenceConformInsecureAdjustmentPsychiatristConventionality Book:Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy