Some unkempt thougths we like
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
In adaptive problems, the people are the problem and the people are the solution. And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so that you can just go off and solve it on your own.
… the ability to remain competitive in this changing world depends less on an organization’s capacity to predict the future than on its capacity to adapt to that future as fast as possible.
Whenever people begin to confuse the nobility of their cause with the goodness and wisdom of their actions ... they can perhaps more easily lead themselves astray.
In an increasingly competitive world, it is quality of thinking that gives an edge—an idea that opens new doors, a technique that solves a problem, or an insight that simply helps make sense of it all.
The key factor in whether or not people can think clearly for themselves is the way they are being treated by the people with them while they are thinking.
While process excellence demands precision, consistency, and repetition, innovation calls for variation, failure, and serendipity.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. it is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
An ignorant can teach another ignorant what he does not know himself.