Jason

“But we British: well, we tend to favour the attitude brilliantly summarized in a recent popular work of sociology: ‘What do we want? Gradual change! When do we want it? In due course!”
― Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone Part 2

“A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action by which we do what we can do in order to receive from God the ability (or power) to do what we cannot do by direct effort.”
― Richard J. Foster, Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines

“That would be a very painful road. Many noses would get out of joint. It would be better to win people over to this point of view rather than force them over.” “Right,” I said. “You would only take all those painful steps if it were really important to get action on this concept. Only if it were really important.”
― Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: THE BESTSELLING BUSINESS CLASSIC: The Difference and Why It Matters

“A guiding policy creates advantage by anticipating the actions and reactions of others, by reducing the complexity and ambiguity in the situation, by exploiting the leverage inherent in concentrating effort on a pivotal or decisive aspect of the situation, and by creating policies and actions that are coherent, each building on the other rather than canceling one another out.”
― Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: THE BESTSELLING BUSINESS CLASSIC: The Difference and Why It Matters