Showing posts with label Max DePree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max DePree. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotaria

"Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost


"What you get free costs too much."
- Jean Anouilh

"I know that you believe that you understood what
you think I said, but I am not sure you realize
that what you heard is not what I meant."
- Robert McCloskey

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for
a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an
oracle, is inborn in us."
- Paul Valery

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find
it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes
a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like
this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."
~ Max DePree

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

The first responsibility of a leader is to
define reality. The last is to say thank you.
~ Max DePree

Those who will not reason, are bigots,
those who cannot, are fools,
and those who dare not, are slaves.
- Lord Byron

The people I distrust most are those who want to
improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert

What delights us in visible
beauty is the invisible.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Whatever women do they must do twice
as well as men to be thought half as
good. Luckily, this is not difficult!"
- Charlotte Whitton

The time to stop talking is when the other person
nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins