#rate

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. ↗

— James K. Polk

#almighty #almighty god #brought #deliberate #god

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#class #curate #five #i #kent

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#critical #done #even #extensively #fairness

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#because #class #forward #fundamentally #go

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. ↗

— Michael Porter

#chief #leader #organization #strategist

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything. ↗

— Michael Porter

#company #strategy #try #willing #without

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. ↗

— Michael Porter

#consistent #continuity #continuous #direction #each

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. ↗

— Michael Porter

#best #ceos #core #i #know