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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6300de | In summer a young rooster's fancy turns to...how can I say this delicately? The most ham-fisted attempts at courtship I've ever had to watch. (And yes, I'm including high school.) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ce44fd7 | All hope and future lost in a day. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3e6ff4e | Weeds are job security for the gardener. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9f0a2c0 | I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 88e5362 | Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ... | requited-love | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 23c6c58 | Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 349e2c7 | Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 95f6e5e | King Billy nectaring on the harbinger. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 922caf2 | we went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1e39ab1 | thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0cc8f27 | Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8af144a | Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1fe83c1 | Every kind of weather is intensified by warming. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5daca6c | Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a3af841 | Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5fa44e6 | Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3be6bd2 | Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1f2ad1a | Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 57ea351 | Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 24e0235 | Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ada0ce3 | Today was the day. Every day was the day. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 787b16e | The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 83e9920 | stopped: a final swish in the tall grass | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e4f00a2 | As Barbara Kingsolver said, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper." | Lavinia Spalding | ||
| dd99f76 | The assumptions about human knowledge underlying the ideal of the perfect plan have proven to be more stubborn. They were given a jolt by the oil price shocks of the 1970s, when the world revealed itself to be less stable than everyone had thought. They provided clear evidence that planners could not know everything they needed to know, and that the business environment had an element of unpredictability. Ironically, it was just at that tim.. | Stephen Bungay | ||
| 4dac686 | Does this sharing raise the risk that confidential information will fall into the wrong hands? Sure, sometimes (although refusing to share information is often a smokescreen for political games). But contrast this with the benefits of having better-informed people all around. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 409011a | Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 0592585 | The line between confidence and arrogance can be not only thin but also vague. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 31978ea | The practices and artifacts of Scrum -backlogs, sprints, stand ups, increments, burn charts -reflect an understanding of the need to strike a balance between planning and improvisation, and the value of engaging the entire team in both. As we'll see later, Agile and Lean ideas can be useful beyond their original ecosystems, but translation must be done mindfully. The history of planning from Taylor to Agile reflects a shift in the zeitgeist.. | Peter Morville | ||
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| 00e9826 | to be a successful manager, let alone--dare I say--a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| f80f1eb | Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling. --Henry Mintzberg | Will Mancini | ||
| 19785d1 | Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS. | passion inspirational-quotes motivation results motivational-quote work-ethic | Ray Mancini | |
| 849e6a0 | organic, zeroed in, and extravagant. When leaders start thinking clearly, engaging locally, focusing redemptively, and risking boldly, their church becomes an unstoppable force and an irresistible influence. | Will Mancini | ||
| ad1c2e6 | Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life. | time-management | Marc Mancini | |
| d354e78 | Scripture reveals a God who expects a return on investment. But experience shows that too many leaders are satisfied with input results only. | Will Mancini | ||
| 29de324 | Ogni vincolo di fratellanza era venuto meno, ogni legame di amicizia era stato reciso. L'avversario si era tramutato in carne da macellare e il una vita da strappare. Nient'altro. Sarebbe dovuto essere un pensiero frenante, invece i guerrieri proseguivano incuranti di quello spettacolo pietoso, galvanizzati da quelle immagini non meno che dall'odore di morte che permeava l'aria. | Stefano Mancini | ||
| 43fee04 | Every leader needs to etch some things in granite (never-change core) and write some things in sand (must -change methods). | Will Mancini | ||
| 9fbb4ec | Light is Love Love is Life Light is Life Light is Time Time is Matter Matter is Space | love | Eric John Mancini | |
| 5ce3d84 | This simple instance illustrates a silent epidemic at work all around us. The reality is that most people don 't think; they only rearrange their prejudices. Real thinking can be disruptive to the status quo and requires a great deal of courage. | Will Mancini | ||
| 475c99c | Ever so quietly, she inched closer to Vincenzo's corpse. Corpse. Such a nasty word. The whole business made her sick. Focus, Sophia, she reminded herself. Maybe there was a clue she could see if she got closer. "Not one more move, Miss Mancini." Without missing a" | Ava Mallory | ||
| ce72801 | Two ladies apparently want to trade a bag of biscotti for Miss Mancini's freedom," Officer O'Brian told him." | Ava Mallory | ||
| 8acdef9 | I had just started my new paragraph when the classroom door opened and a woman and a fat blond girl walked in. Sharon sits behind me and I heard her say, "Ugh." Diane sits beside me and she whispered, "I hope she isn't going to be in this room." | Barthe DeClements | ||
| dc82f73 | Elsie was gross. Her eyes were squished above cheek bubbles of fat. Her chin rippled down her neck. She really didn't have a waist except where her stomach bulged out below her chest. Her legs looked like two bed pillows with the ends stuffed in shoes. I knew everyone hated having Elsie in our room. | Barthe DeClements |