Plowshares Magazine Quotes & Sayings

When predicting homosexual prejudice from fundamentalism and the full RWA scale, both predictors have positive beta weights (each is associated with increasing homosexual prejudice), but fundamentalism is the weaker predictor (.19 vs. 43 — Anonymous

Jeffrey Pfeffer and I found that many ineffective companies suffer from this disease, which we call the "smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done. In such organizations, talking somehow becomes an acceptable - even a preferred - substitute for actually doing anything. Inaction is bad for any company. But it is especially devastating when innovation is the goal, because so many ideas need to be tried to find a few that might work. — Robert I. Sutton

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. — Franklin Knight Lane

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end. — Harlan Ellison

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool. — Harry Hay

Experience has taught me this: you've done everything you needed to do, and there's no sense in rehashing it. All you can do now is wait for the race. And what instinct has taught me is one thing only: use your imagination. — Haruki Murakami

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life. — Merzbow

Death is God when love is mine.
Prayer preys when we're divine — Munia Khan