Peter Drucker Quotes

The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.

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• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Together

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.

  

  J. L. Austin

• When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.

  

  Peter Drucker
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