#ow

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right. ↗

— David Hobson

#cleaning #down #enjoy #feels #garden

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. ↗

— Dee Hock

#leadership #nothing #only #subordinates #then

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. ↗

— Dee Hock

#good #how #live #matter #only

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

#clothing #follows #forms #future #past

There are enough no smoking places now. ↗

— David Hockney

#now #places #smoking

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts. ↗

— Dee Hock

#cadre #committed #concepts #ego #emerging

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years. ↗

— Dee Hock

#collective #entire #few #going #i

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. ↗

— Dee Hock

#how #innovative #into #mind #never

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

#apply #compare #concepts #course #determine