Philip Selznick Quotes

#1. The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.

Michael Lewis

#2. Why are you here? Did you come to try to kill me again?" "Oddly enough, no. I - I had a bad dream. I needed to talk to someone.

Kendare Blake

#3. It's good to vandalize one's own work.

John P. Sousa

#4. The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

Philip Selznick

#5. True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

N. T. Wright

#6. Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Philip Selznick

#7. He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life.

Josh Lanyon

#8. It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

Philip Selznick

#9. I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Carl Sandburg

#10. The only treasure the poor can hoard is the prospect of a miracle.

Josep Pla

#11. Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

John Jackson Miller