#results

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ↗

— George S. Patton

#people #results #surprise #tell #their

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#average #average people #hires #out #people

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#intimacy #men #results #sex #sometimes

I got quite good results from protein plates. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#got #i #plates #protein #quite

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #business #cannot #communicators #corporate

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ↗

— Luke Perry

#because #fire #fireman #get #had

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. ↗

— Phaedrus

#bound #everyone #example #his #own

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #attributes #being #defined #effective