#gains

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#checking #decision #executives #expectations #improve

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#always #been #difficulties #faith #humor

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me. ↗

— Michael Dukakis

#everyone #general #good #i #like

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#campaigns #depend #domestic #harassment #image

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. ↗

— David Eagleman

#against #backdrop #being #being human #complexities

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#confident #defensive #feel #going #hesitant

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#been #exciting #here #i #loud

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. ↗

— George Eliot

#always #been #circumstance #greater #had