November 19 Most Favored: The most important thing in communication is hearing what isnt said. Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and he invented the concept known as management by objectives. He taught at New York University and Claremont Graduate University respectively, 1909-2005 You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. As Prime Minister, Gandhi became known for her political ruthlessness and unprecedented centralisation of power. In 1999 she was also named Woman of the Millennium in a poll organised by the BBC, 1917-1984 Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. Gene Tierney, American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, Tierney played the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), 1920-1991 There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist. Since 1971, he has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman is one of the worlds most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism, and liquid modernity, b. 1925 I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if Im going to learn, I must do it by listening. Larry King, American television and radio host, b. 1933 Favorites: We may hasten or we may retard, but we cannot prevent, the final reconciliation. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace. James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1881), after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863–81). Garfields accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judiciary appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several African-Americans to prominent federal positions. As President, Garfield advocated a bi-metal monetary system, agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African-Americans. He proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law. Garfields presidency lasted just 200 days— as a result of being shot by an assassin. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder brother, next door to their cousins. He worked at many jobs to finance his higher education at Williams College, Massachusetts, 1831-1881 The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist, sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Hegels Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. Diltheys research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and historys status as a science, 1833-1911 The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. Billy Sunday, American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseballs National League, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. Converted to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. He was known for his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery, 1862-1935 What is the flesh and blood compounded of But a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love, Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime. Allen Tate, American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944, 1899-1979 There is not love where there is no will. My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. Have a bias toward action - lets see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. When you have spent an important part of your life playing Lets Pretend, its often easy to see symbolism where none exists. Gene Tierney Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better. In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other. Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable. Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You dont, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear. Zygmunt Bauman Look, I dont even agree with myself at times. We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagans foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position. She is known for her Kirkpatrick Doctrine, which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washingtons aims—believing they could be led into democracy by example. She put this doctrine into practice most clearly in Central America, by supporting the Contras in Nicaragua and the military Juntas in Guatemala and El Salvador, all of which perpetrated massive human rights violations while countering a perceived communist threat, 1926-2006 The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. Ted Turner, American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors. Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes. He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Malone surpassed him in 2011. He uses much of his land for ranches to re-popularize bison meat, amassing the largest herd in the world, b. 1938 Others: Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves. The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others. James A. Garfield Misattributed: Ideas control the world. - John Wingate Thornton, The historical relation of New England to the English Commonwealth (1875), p. 46; The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. - Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s, with earliest publication yet located Pinochets Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5; and Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. Wilhelm Dilthey They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. Going to church doesnt make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. Billy Sunday Men expect too much, do too little. Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. Allen Tate The best way to predict the future is to create it. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. People who dont take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker Where there is love there is life. If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Indira Gandhi I always tried to play my hunches. I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughters unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. Gene Tierney This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. Youre not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy—of wisdom you can acquire and make your own. The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating. We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places well never visit. The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off. We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we dont have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed. In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you dont just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. Its the crime of humiliation. Zygmunt Bauman Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. In essence, the motivation of the attacks on advertising is hostility toward capitalism and egoism. Democrats cant get elected unless things get worse-and things wont get worse unless they get elected. Russia is playing chess, while we are playing Monopoly. The only question is whether they will checkmate us before we bankrupt them. What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. I was a woman in a mans world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. I dont think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them. Jeane Kirkpatrick Those who have succeeded at anything and dont mention luck are kidding themselves. Larry King Change before you have to. Control your own destiny or someone else will. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. If you dont have a competitive advantage, dont compete. Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition. Jack Welch, American business executive, author and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the companys value rose 4000% and increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. In 2006, Welchs net worth was estimated at $720 million. When he retired from GE he took a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history, b. 1935 We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate (for Chemistry in 1986). Lees work was related to the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions for relative large molecules using crossed molecular beams. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science, b. 1936 The mind is just another muscle. Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. Theres really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. Its not healthy. Ted Turner Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה, ; born Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza, Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist. Her voice has been described as mezzo-soprano of near-flawless tonal quality. Her music fused elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and the Americas; during her singing career, she earned many platinum and gold discs, 1957-2000 – info only
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