#nag

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#management #more #motivating #nothing #other

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#good #good manager #makes #manager #one word

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#beavers #eager #expected #fill #guys

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#big #boy #dog #even #go

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#feeling

The smaller the function, the greater the management. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#greater #management #smaller

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. ↗

— John Green

#teenagers #teens #change

I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#demons #growing-up #humor #jace-wayland #luke