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“Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.”

Source: First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently

“If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.”

Ifs Thinking Politics Simple Teach Folly Adversaries Wishful Thinking Appeasement

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.”

Needs Heart Art Stills Speak Language Easy Difficult Simple Teach Periods Harmony Rhetoric Oratory

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.”

People Way Philosophy Helping Able Moving Simple Behinds Teach Building Gains Complexes Worthwhile Building Up Parkour Gaining Confidence

Author:Chris Hayes

“The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.”

Ifs Parent Simple Teach Blessing Lifestyle Simple Life

Author:Bo Sanchez

“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.”

Knows Simple Knowledge Teach Fool Knowledge And Wisdom Shunning

Book:The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton

Source: The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton

“He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.”

World Mind Doe Stills Real Eye Form Spirit Simple Teach Path Doors Activity Yoga Breaths Supreme Fearless Perceive Bliss Enjoyment Midst Ceremony Guru Renounce Rite

Author:Kabir

“Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.”

People Ifs Firsts Voice Interest Simple Attention Teach Lessons News Claims Regard Affection Sincere Capture Sermons

Book:The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus

Source: The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus

“Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!”

Life Philosophy Simple Teach Rocks Masters Life Philosophy Firm

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

Men Use Simple Teach Study Wise Admire Observation Crafty Simple Man

Book:The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

Source: The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

“The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”

Way Children Mother Father Simple Perfect Teach Tasks Imperfect Organize

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.”

Ifs Giving Heart Mean Littles Real Enough Belief Simple Teach Wise Dog Return Offers Late Models Mirrors Tricks Too Late Imaginary Humane Humane Society

Author:Marjorie Garber