Pontefract Quotes

#1. Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

#2. Shall we?" The doors slide open and he leisurely extends his arm to the looming double doors marked Penthouse. I get the feeling that I'm about to step through the wardrobe. And the lion is right behind me.

Vi Keeland

#3. If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.

Dan Pontefract

#4. The Purpose Effect results in a higher calling, where individuals and organizations seek to improve society to benefit all stakeholders.

Dan Pontefract

#5. In general the parallel between the popular uses of music and of pictures is close enough. Both consist of 'using' rather than 'receiving'. Both rush hastily forward to do things with the work of art instead of waiting for it to do something to them.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion.

Dan Pontefract

#7. When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me ...

Sarah J. Maas

#8. Each of us deserves a life where we get paid to fulfill our purpose, in an organization that consciously chooses to do good.

Dan Pontefract

#9. Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

Horst Koehler

#10. Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever.

Dan Pontefract

#11. Dogs are better than people.

Emily Dickinson

#12. They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Elizabeth Hardwick