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«I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.»
«Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.»
«I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.»
Author: Jan Carlzon
| Keywords:
communicate, new one, objective, organization, The Goal, The Organization
«More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| Keywords:
disposition, evaluation, furthermore, innate, objective, relation to, subjective
«I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.»
«Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
convincing, debt, halve, halved, halving, millennia, millennium, objective, pipe, pipe dream, program, relief, The Millennium
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government»
«Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
aiming, Archer, archers, a good deal, behave, bow, capabilities, compare, distant, emulate, emulates, emulating, footsteps, good deal, imitate, imitation, models, objective, outstanding, proceed, prowess, prudent, shoot, skilful, target, The Archer, The Archers, tracks
«Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
certitude, doubtless, moonlit, objective, visited
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