Basil Johnston Quotes

#1. Someone said to me ... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'

Diane Sawyer

#2. I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

Blake Butler

#3. I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window.

Margaret Mallory

#4. You're so good with people. You say all the right things to make people feel better about themselves. You don't do it to be patronising at all; you do it because you're a good person.

N.R. Walker

#5. To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Peter Drucker

#6. The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men

Basil Johnston

#7. Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

John Leo

#8. To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

Gerald May

#9. I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance.

David Iserson

#10. Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

Joe Walsh