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#1

“If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”
― Ram Dass

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#2

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
― ram dass

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#3

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”
― ram dass

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#4

“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”
― ram dass

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#5

“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.”
― Ram Dass

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#6

“Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.”
― Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking

tags: beaurocracy, humor, management

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#7

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: administration, big-business, bureaucracy, corporations, corporatocracy, dictatorship, efficiency, evil, hell, management, police-state

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#8

“What's measured improves”
― Peter Drucker

tags: management, metrics, quality-assurance

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#9

“Employers are like horses — they require management.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

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#10

“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.”
― Brad Szollose

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#11

“You can change only what people know, not what they do.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

tags: control, management

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#12

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: management

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#13

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: leadership, management, strategic-planning

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#14

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

tags: business, leadership-development, management, wisdom

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#15

“A boss says "you do it", a leader says "Let's do it".”
― amit kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: boss, chief, designation, follower, leadership, leading, management, power, titles, true-leader

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#16

“Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: leadership, management

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#17

“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”
― Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

tags: humour, management, truisms, truth

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#18

“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

tags: incompetence, management, paperwork

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#19

“What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.”
― Hyman G. Rickover

tags: common-sense, experience, management

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#20

“Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.”
― Marcus Buckingham

tags: golden-rule, management, manager

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#21

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

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#22

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

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#23

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: charity, compassion, gratitude, helping-others, inspiration

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#24

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

tags: gratitude, prayer

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#25

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: gratitude

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#26

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
― Voltaire

tags: appreciation, gratitude

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#27

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”
― Thomas Merton

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#28

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: fear, future, gratitude, love, past, present

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#29

“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: anorexia, apples, eating, gratitude, recovery

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#30

“As for logical consequences, the "logic" is highly debatable. If you continually arrive late for my workshop, despite my warning that lateness is unacceptable, I may find it "logical" to lock you out of my classroom. Or perhaps it would be more "logical" to keep you locked in after class for the same number of minutes you were late. Or maybe my "logic" demands that you miss out on the snacks. As you may be starting to suspect, these are not true exercises in logic. They're really more of a free association, where we try to think of a way to make the wrongdoer suffer. We hope that the suffering will motivate the offender to do better in the future.”
― Joanna Faber, How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

tags: consequences, parenting, punishment

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