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- A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- "Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005), People and Performance
- Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
- The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
- We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
- Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
- Chief Joseph (1840 - 1904), on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877
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