Homelike Management Quotes & Sayings

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them. — John Dewey

You have to fall in love with hanging around words. — John Ciardi

How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship. — Robert C. Martin

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone. — Oscar Wilde

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club. — Sean Fallon

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't let him lead you astray, my child. He's such a wicked man, woof! — Edmund White

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain. — Josephine Tey

It is undoubtedly the case (and considerations advanced in the first sub-section have prepared us for this conclusion) that the election does in some sense denote the basis of all the relationships between God and man, between God in His very earliest movement towards man and man in his very earliest determination by this divine movement. it is in the decision in favour of this movement, in God's self-determination and the resultant determination of man, in the basic relationship which is enclosed and fulfilled within Himself, that God is who He is. — Karl Barth

In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun? — John Abramson

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall. — Stephen Covey