Philip

“For Lyotard, metanarratives are a distinctly modern phenomenon: they are stories that not only tell a grand story (since even premodern and tribal stories do this) but also claim to be able to legitimate or prove the story's claim by an appeal to universal reason...It is the supposed rationality of modern scientistic stories about the world that makes them a metanarrative.”
― James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

“People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.”
― Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

“Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.”
― J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer