Famous Quotes & Sayings

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Raymond E. Feist

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

Raymond E. Feist

There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.

Raymond E. Feist

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

Sarah Vowell

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.

Sarah Vowell

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

Sarah Vowell

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.

Sarah Vowell

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

William Greider

The Democrats should concentrate instead on how to spend money - lots of it - in smart, socially useful ways that help struggling wage earners.

Harold Brodkey

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

Fannie Flagg

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Wally Lamb

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

Anne McCaffrey

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

Anne McCaffrey

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

Anne McCaffrey

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

Kate Chopin

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

Kate Chopin

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

David Harris

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Daniel Yergin

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.