Bakke Quotes

#1. the fact that he couldn't put the feeling into words didn't make it go away.

Dennis Bakke

#2. Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

Leah Remini

#3. Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

Brennan Manning

#4. When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential.

Dennis Bakke

#5. Revival without discipleship is a dangerous thing.

Raymond J. Bakke

#6. Neil had spent his entire life drifting by on the outskirts, looked over and looked past. It'd made him happy, or so he'd thought, because being ignored meant he was safe. He hadn't realized how lonely he was until he met the Foxes.

Nora Sakavic

#7. Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

Dennis Bakke

#8. America does not run on gas, oil, or coal any more than we may one day run on wind, solar, or tidal power. America runs on electricity.

Gretchen Bakke

#9. Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

Dennis Bakke

#10. If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.

Dennis Bakke

#11. Asking for advice is an act of humility ... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

Dennis Bakke

#12. freedom is doing and going towards what you love.

Erlend Bakke

#13. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

Jim Breyer

#14. Be brave. Charlotte had said the same back to Molly, and now her best friend was living a Technicolor life full of adventure, love, and passionate happiness. It was a future neither one of them could've predicted. Being brave had its rewards.

Nalini Singh

#15. A joy-filled workplace gives people the freedom to use their talents and skills for the benefit of society, without being crushed or controlled by autocratic supervisors.

Dennis W. Bakke

#16. when higher-ups could be bothered to hand down answers, they often didn't understand the situation well enough to make a good call.

Dennis Bakke

#17. I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

#18. By the time we reach adulthood we are so full of conventional wisdom, preconceived notions, and filters and limitations of various kinds that we don't even notice them.

Erland Bakke

#19. Herod was convert,after all. His mother was Arab. His people, the Idumeans, had come to Judaism only a generation or two earlier.

Reza Aslan