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“success springs not from some new-fangled fad, paradigm, process, or program but from the willingness of an organization’s people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“The world’s societies suffer from the current cult of victimization because its subtle dogma holds that circumstances and other people prevent you from achieving your goals.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“But even in the worst of such circumstances, people can’t move forward if they just sit around feeling powerless and blaming others for their misery.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“from the willingness of an organization’s people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“Roar's mouth pulled into a smile - a beautiful smile she hadn't seen in weeks.
"Beautiful, huh?"
She drew her hand away, giving him a small push on the shoulder. "Don't act surprised."
"I'm not. Always nice to be reminded, though.”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Into the Still Blue
“Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, quote from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I want balance. Work is important because I have to support myself, but so are friends, health, rest. Having the time to do things that I enjoy, and sometimes doing nothing at all.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from See Me
“След няколко кратки ноти, акцентирани в стакато, следва акорд, гласът на мама се промъква сред нотите му, превзема една от тях и отскача до небето: започва се. В накъсан ритъм тя слиза от високите ноти, изпети с разчувстваща нежност, до дълбоките и тъмни води на ниските тонове, които изпява като стенание, сякаш животът я напуска, капка по капка. Понякога прави един шум с устните си, сякаш се отваря капачка, на други места се удря по гърдите с длан, за да подчертае музиката, която се лее от гърлото ѝ. Сякаш гласът ѝ разказва някаква история – не само историята на живота ѝ, но и тази на цялото човечество – войните и глада, битките и изпитанията, победите и пораженията. А понякога гласът ѝ бушува в заплашителни вълни, като океана по време на буря, друг път е като водопад, който се спуска по скалата, подскача по камъните и се втурва разпенен надолу към пищната тъмна долина. Гласът ѝ рисува около главата ми златни кръгове като Сатурнови пръстени, люлее се лудешки отгоре надолу, сякаш танцува френски канкан, жалее и потръпва, увива се около някое е ниско фа като бръшлян около ствол на дърво, след като се гмурва в кристалносините води на акорда в сол мажор, който Питър повтаря неколкократно с лявата си ръка… Във възторг съм. Мама е права: никой никога не е използвал гласа си така.”
― Nancy Huston, quote from Fault Lines
“I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.”
― Laura Moriarty, quote from The Center of Everything
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