Grace Murray Hopper Quotes

#1. Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally,

Jocelyn Davis

#2. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)

Grace Murray Hopper

#3. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. There's a difference between interest
and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it
only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you
accept no excuses - only results.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#5. Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

Helen Fisher

#6. To give voice to the questions
even in my own head
would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.

Nafisa Haji

#7. But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Umberto Eco

#8. Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. The Lord recently spoke a powerful word to me, 'No more delay!' This word has many applications, which the Lord led me to release as a series of prophetic decrees during Glory of Zion's recent Head of The Year Conference.

Dutch Sheets

#10. Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

The Beatles

#11. It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Grace Murray Hopper

#12. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Grace Murray Hopper

#13. Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Grace Murray Hopper

#14. What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Martin Luther

#15. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.

Scot McKnight