Quotes

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“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“Anger closes the mind and cools the heart when both are need most”

— Anonymous

“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”

— Richard Iannelli

“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”

— Constance Baker Motley (First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

— Mark Twain

“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress, 22 December 1921

“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”

— Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”

— Joan Kirner, at Women into Power Conference, Adelaide, October 1994

“Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator…
Recognition is. That’s why we do what we do…
Recognition is critical to self-esteem.
Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant.
Money is nice, sure.
But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards,
without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation,
the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more.
Eventually, more will never be enough.”

— John Baldoni has created a series of radio commentaries called Life, Leadership, and Laughter. These commentaries air monthly on Michigan Radio (WUOM 91.7)
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