#lem

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#implemented #making #making decisions #management #manages

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#courtesy #government #handled #indispensable #most

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. ↗

— John Sununu

#background #benefit #budget #calculating #challenges

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption. ↗

— John Sununu

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #destruction #element

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

#always #being #gentleman #infallible #know

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#classical #crazy #elements #even #folk

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #christ #christians #easy #established

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#battery #below #cars #different #different shapes