#vice

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#problem #change

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#business

Live like you were dying, Love because you are. ↗

— Mark Green

#romance #love

Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully. ↗

— Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

#change #remember #you-are #change

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#customer-service #library #library-books #change

words have the power o change us ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change

Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#age

Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day. "Ten times the better I'll know them, then." I said. "How strange that you should punish me by ensuring I come out more educated than Roden, who has tried to obey you. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#education

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#culture #education #politics #education

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service