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The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.
Interview with Scott London, U.S. National Public Radio (1996)
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
If you keep working, you'll last longer, and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
New York Times (1997)
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
New York Times (1993)
Most individuals, by the time they reach maturity, have built up an array of concepts which they use to interpret the data they observe.
Understanding Organisations (1993)
We are self-activating organisms, and can, to some degree, control our own destiny and our own responses to pressures... we can select our goals and choose the paths toward them.
Understanding Organisations (1993)
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Security no longer comes from being employed. It comes from being employable.
Changing Workplace (1997)
Tensions and conflict between work life and personal life will never be fully resolved... We must give people the support they need to pursue business opportunities fully without shortchanging the human relationships that are of equal importance.
When Giants Learn to Dance: Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management and Careers in the 1990s (1992)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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