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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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• Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.

  

  David Chipperfield
  • Real
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• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  

  James Allen
  • Beautiful

• Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

  

  Chris Noth
  • Money
  • Environment

• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Politics

• I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Shadow

• The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
  • Great
  • Struggle

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Freedom
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Study
  • Failing
  • Sake

• We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.

  

  Earl Felton
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Hate

• All religious organizations exist to sell themselves to the rich.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Religious
  • Exist
  • Organizations

• Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

  

  F. M. Scherer
  • Failing
  • Taught
  • Titles

• Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Trying
  • Military
  • Duty

• Love wins when everything else will fail.

  

  Fanny Jackson Coppin
  • Winning
  • Failing

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Trying
  • Changed
  • Birthday

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Commitment
  • Level
  • Organizations

• You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their child had been killed. So this is a very personal side to each one of these mothers "Mothers of the Movement".

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Children
  • Mother`s
  • Describe

• I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Wish
  • Accidents
  • Reduction

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Failing
  • Organizations