#cult

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#pillow #support #tough #tough-times #inspirational

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#born #choice #contribute #culture #feel

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth. ↗

— Wes Jackson

#storytelling #tradition #intelligence

If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#economics #germany #intelligence

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessary. ↗

— Tarja Moles

#culture #finland #humor #management-and-leadership #leadership

Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ... ↗

— Craig E. Johnson

#context #culture #small-groups #leadership

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #thule #leadership

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#puns #life

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. ↗

— Robert Altman

#enough #enough people #just #make #means

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need. ↗

— Heidi W. Durrow

#life #soul #women #life