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| be615be | When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cd357ad | Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 12cb5dc | Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 27437af | When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons: 1. Desire for Job Security 2. Resistance to Change 3. Lack of Self-Worth | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e29475e | He who seeks one thing, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Must reap around him in whatever he sows A harvest of barren regret. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 68e5520 | President Theodore Roosevelt offered a definition of success that has stood the test of time. "Far and away the best prize that life offers," he said, "is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." | William C. Taylor | ||
| 5b9156f | A fundamental mistake that urban planners made, Jacobs claims, was to infer functional order from the duplication and regimentation of building forms: that is, from purely visual order. Most complex systems, on the contrary, do not display a surface regularity; their order must be sought at a deeper level. "To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding. The leaves dropping from the trees in the a.. | James C. Scott | ||
| e63c57f | The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! | archeology civilization garbage | James C. Scott | |
| 601cfba | Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation." | nomad nomadism state taxation | James C. Scott | |
| ff3198b | After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience. | James C. Scott | ||
| eb7a484 | It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. | freedom life petite-bourgeoise trade-unions work | James C. Scott | |
| eaab2d5 | Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is a striking case in point. Its network of sample hospitals allowed it to first "discover"--in the epidemiological sense--such hitherto unknown diseases as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease, and AIDS." | James C. Scott | ||
| 539d251 | The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. | bureaucracy capitalism freedom life petite-bourgeoise private-sector public-sector trade-unions work | James C. Scott | |
| 4f8a808 | What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves. | James C. Scott | ||
| 2302074 | immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers. | James C. Scott | ||
| 808be9e | Much history as well as popular imagination not only erases their contingency but implicitly attributes to historical actors intentions and consciousness they could not have possibly had...Once a significant historical event is codified, it travels a sort of condensation symbol and, unless we are very careful, takes on a false logic and order that does a grave injustice to how it was experienced at the time. | James C. Scott | ||
| 0bff686 | Gossip is perhaps the most familiar and elementary form of disguised popular aggression. Though its use is hardly confined to attacks by subordinates on their superiors, it represents a relatively safe social sanction. Gossip, almost by definition has no identifiable author, but scores of eager retailers who can claim they are just passing on the news. Should the gossip--and here I have in mind malicious gossip--be challenged, everyone can .. | James C. Scott | ||
| fb65547 | modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission." | James C. Scott | ||
| f8c87e9 | Tolkien reveals that our personalities take on the quality of our acts. Outward behavior manifests inward convictions, whether for good or ill. "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 282d96c | Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that evil preys upon our virtues far more than our vices. Our very strengths and assets-whether intelligence or bravery, diligence or loyalty or beauty, but especially righteousness-may dispose us either to scorn those who lack such virtues, or else to employ our gifts for our own selfish ends. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 4190eb3 | Earning Trust & Cooperation The number one thing which stands between you and meeting a new person is tension. What is the number one thing which stands between a sales person and their prospect? You guessed it . . . tension. One of our first priorities as we initiate a first impression must be to focus on how to effectively minimize or eliminate tension. Regardless of your relationship or venue, when tension is high, trust and cooperation .. | best-motivational-speakers build-rapport communication-skills customer-service-quotes first-impressions-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes speaker-susan-young trust | Susan C. Young | |
| d69042d | I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d0a3bc6 | William awoke one morning to find that -- despite having no memory of it - he'd send a message to the Requisitions Department demanding ten thousand gallons of sleep (73% concentrate, with acetic acid stabilizer). The request had been rejected, but someone from Requisitions sent back a blanket and a pillow. | sleep | Bryce C. Anderson | |
| 5ed5198 | I trust that our merciful God, our only help & refuge, will not desert us in this our hour of need, but will deliver us by His almighty hand, that the whole world may recognize His power & all hearts be lifted up in adoration & praise of His unbounded loving kindness," he said. "We must however submit to His almighty will, whatever that may be." | William C. Davis | ||
| c83c2af | This was a people's war. All the people had a stake in it. All the people had an obligation to put their hearts and wealth and blood into it. All would find their futures indelibly shaped by it. | William C. Davis | ||
| a75852a | Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic--you aren't going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims). | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 02d097f | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. --Aristotle | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| bc2656c | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 37dc843 | responses to my questions fell into two broad categories, each associated (at least in my mind) with one of two people, Americans who lived in the twentieth century. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 1af5565 | The Wizard and the Prophet is a book about the way knowledgeable people might think about the choices to come, rather than what will happen in this or that scenario. It is a book about the future that makes no predictions. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 5ee274f | TAWANTINSUYU In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great's expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thir.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 919e78d | The portraits were intended to parade their fellows like specimens in a zoo. Yet at the same time most show the castizos, mestizos, and mulattos dressed sumptuously, moving happily about their daily business, tall and robustly healthy each and every one. Looking at the smooth, smiling faces now, one would never know that on the streets of the cities where they were painted these people were scorned for their very diversity. One would also n.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| aa8d44d | Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered by a corrupt and inept civic and religious establishment, troubled by a past that it barely understood--to the contemporary eye, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico City looks oddly familiar. In its dystopic way, it was an amazingly contemporary place, unlike any other t.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 0d8e89d | Indian farmers grow maize in what is called a milpa. The term means "maize field," but refers to something considerably more complex. A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize, avocados, multiple varieties of squash and bean, melon, tomatoes, chilis, sweet potato, jicama (a tuber), amaranth (a grain-like plant), and mucuna (a tropical legume). In nature, wild b.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 497f630 | Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 22aaeed | Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millenia until 1492-may seem ludicrous. But flaws in perspective often appear obvious only after they are pointed out. In this case they took decades to rectify. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 788fba8 | The conflict between these visions is not between good and evil, but between different ideas of the good life, between ethical orders that give priority to personal liberty and those that give priority to what might be called connection. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| f193209 | Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. Neither line of argument is useful, though. What | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b7571eb | visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 577c317 | Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 8e35108 | T]he Indian deaths were such a severe financial blow to the colonies that...[t]o resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| d23bfbd | Nature's success stories, they are like Gause's protozoans; the world is their petri dish. Their populations grow at a terrific rate; they take over large areas, engulfing their environment as if no force opposed them. Then they hit a barrier. They drown in their own wastes. They starve from lack of food. Something figures out how to eat them. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| a8015a1 | think of the adherents of these two perspectives as Wizards and Prophets--Wizards unveiling technological fixes, Prophets decrying the consequences of our heedlessness. Borlaug has become a model for the Wizards. Vogt was in many ways the founder of the Prophets. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| e0ff53d | testament to the human capacity to adapt (or, less charitably, to our ability to operate in ignorance). | Charles C. Mann |