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Letter "P" » Principles
«If all men were just, there would be no need of valor»
«I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.»
«High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life»
«I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Managers,
Motivation,
Principles
| Keywords:
becoming, convert, empower, empowered, empowering, empowers, manager, motivate, motivates, Obstacles, primaries, primary, principle, remove, slowly, The Manager
«If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
hardly, rigidly, sticks
«I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.»
«Important principles may and must be inflexible.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
important, inflexible, principles
«Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
faithfulness, first principle, first principles, sincerity
«If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Principles
| Keywords:
attachment, free-thinking, free thought, imperatively
«If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Conquest,
Principles
| Keywords:
American, conquest, conquests, deeply, in the mind, principle, rooted
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