Tichy Quotes

#1. Then what exactly is it that you design?"
He gave a proud smile.
"Bitless compositions."
"Bitless? You mean, from bits, the units of information?"
"No, Mr. Tichy, the units of being bitten.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.

Mort Sahl

#3. You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#4. In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Hugo Claus

#5. I love with the heart not the eyes.

Niall Horan

#6. Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Hilaire Belloc

#7. We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

James E. Faust

#8. Innocence is beauty.
ignorance is death. -Kuroshitsuji

Yana Toboso

#9. There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.

Noel Tichy

#10. Leadership is about change ... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Noel Tichy

#11. There's a penalty for trying to do what's right. The dark forces don't like it, and stress will make you sick.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. Those that come to see me, do me honour; and those that stay away, do me a favour.

Edward John Trelawny

#13. She has the blood of a wolf," said Joffrey. "And you have the wits of a goose," said Tyrion.

George R R Martin

#14. Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

Noel Tichy

#15. We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Vance Havner

#16. Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there ... Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people ... Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.

Noel Tichy

#17. Just put on the lens and go.

Miroslav Tichy

#18. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

Noel Tichy

#19. Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

Ashly Lorenzana

#20. Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like ... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

Noel Tichy

#21. There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

Noel Tichy

#22. If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.

Miroslav Tichy

#23. Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

LeCrae

#24. In every multiracial country in the world, racial prejudice exists and people too often rely on stereotypes to understand members of other groups. But in a democracy, citizens do not necessarily have to like one another; they must only be willing to tolerate one another.

Anonymous

#25. I heartedly approve, in theory," said Ibelius, "but in practice I believe I shall ... absent myself.

Scott Lynch

#26. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Noel Tichy