Labovitz Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use. — Mark Twain

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years. — Saul Griffith

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. — Wendy Kopp

Vertical alignment implies more than employee compliance with strategy that is set at the top. It's a two-way street. Strategy must be determined by customers, but it must also be informed and shaped by the people who implement it. Employees in the middle of the organization and on the front lines almost always experience greater intimacy with customers
and competitors than do senior managers, and their insights can enrich strategy-but only if they are actively solicited. — George Labovitz

Do you really exist?" I blurt out.
"Not at all," he says with a smile, "I've known that since I was four. — David Levithan

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. — Holly Black

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To be is to be the value of a variable. — Willard Van Orman Quine

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster. — Lynda Obst

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings ... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing. — Victor Hugo

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required. — George Will