Contingency Leadership Quotes & Sayings

As Dr. Hamid Rashid, the senior Bangladeshi economist and a leader of the UNDP's Legal Empowerment of the Poor program, has flatly stated: "With limited and insecure land rights, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the poor to overcome poverty."80 And once again, it is the women in the developing world who are most devastated by the lawless chaos of insecure property rights. In the absence of clear and documented legal rights to property, there are two other social forces that step into the vacuum and settle who gets what: 1) brute force, and 2) traditional cultural norms. And under both influences women generally lose - and brutally so. — Gary A. Haugen

One small step + desired behavior = high probability of further steps — Stephen Guise

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up? — Ronald Reagan

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair. — Nik Kershaw

Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it. — Rumer Godden

Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens. — Anne Bishop

They'd pretended - all of them faking, denying, lying - that they weren't counting the seconds until leave was over and it was back out there into that world of yellow dust, that alien planet where the only color was death. — Cole McCade

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms. — Chris Brogan

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white. — Clementine Paddleford

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film. — Peter Straughan

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius