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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
“It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”
― Enid Blyton, quote from Five on a Treasure Island
“It’s about time,” he says, grinning. “I was almost going to give up on you.” He winks.
I crumple onto the rock, right beside him. For the first time, since the other day, we are touching. My shoulder is brushing up against his and there is an electric current running through the air that seems to be hogging all the attention.
Thankfully, Teague speaks before I faint. “Water?” he asks, offering up his canteen.
“Sure, thanks,” I say, taking a swig and catching my breath.
“So.” His eyes widen. “You’re in pretty good shape.”
“Apparently not,” I say sarcastically. “Not good enough.”
“No, you are.” He smiles.
Dimples. Major dimples.
“It’s true. Really.” He nods as he speaks. “I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who can keep up with me like that.”
“Yeah, well.” I smile back, but instead of taking the compliment like my mom always says I really need to learn to do, I brush it off with a lame attempt at humor.
“It was a matter of survival,” I say. “I just didn’t want to get abandoned in the woods.”
Teague stands and thoughtfully extends his hand to pull me up. His hand is warm and muscular, and we both hold on a second longer than we have to.
“Thanks,” I say, letting go first.
“Hey, you know I would never leave you out here by yourself,” he says. “I mean, just know that, okay?”
“Oh, I was just joking,” I tell him.
“Yeah, I know, but still--” He gets kind of serious. “These woods, they’re fun but they can be dangerous. It’s kind of an unwritten rule to either tell someone where you’re going, or make sure when you do go out, you go with someone else.”
“Okay.” I shrug, touched by his concern for my personal welfare.
“Emily,” he says. “Be careful, okay? This isn’t California.”
“O-kaaaay,” I say, smiling. “I promise.”
“Good,” says Teague.”
― Megan Shull, quote from Amazing Grace
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from Being Peace
“...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Moominpappa's Memoirs
“Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through which knowledge is obtained. For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e. abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter itself. Hence there is no reason why those things which may be learned from philosophical science, so far as they can be known by natural reason, may not also be taught us by another science so far as they fall within revelation. Hence theology included in sacred doctrine differs in kind from that theology which is part of philosophy. SECOND ARTICLE [I, Q.”
― Thomas Aquinas, quote from Summa Theologica, 5 Vols
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