Frances Hesselbein Quotes

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

I think one of the things I've learned is that the tone of an organization is set from the top down. And if you have men running an organization that want to honor women, that's a whole different experience than if they don't.

I'm just very happy that the Celtics really take the time and they consider us not only as players, but as people, and people that have families.

The two main attributes of MindTree culture are high achievement orientation and high caring.

Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

The way you write affects what you say.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea that our conversation became just two people sort of talking over each other, at one point.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

people are all there is to an organization