#gem

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#engagement #express #feel #i #i feel

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. ↗

— David Soul

#anger #arrested #awful #begun #called

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#crisis #dealing #hope #i #language

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself. ↗

— Carl Stokes

#being #city #going #hear #i

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

#detective #finesse #ingenious #joy #rare

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#implemented #making #making decisions #management #manages