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«The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.»
Author: Jilly Cooper
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
domestic, domestic animal, domestic animals, firmness, trained
«The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
creates, credit, credited, crediting, credits, effectively, enables, function, In Training, job, leaders, responsibility, sidestep, task, team, The Task, The Team, trained, train of thought
«The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
characterizes, construct, cultural, devote, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, femininity, infancy, trained
«The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
blunt, cutting, cutting edge, inexactitude, Return to, rounded, trained
«The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
authoritarian, biological, callous, cell, chattel, divisions, injustice, Sex and, The Family, trained
«There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
blare, blaring, brass, crash, cymbal, cymbals, guts, practicality, supported, throat, trained
«Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
cut-and-thrust, differ, differing, guardsman, guardsmen, raw, raw recruit, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, thrust, trained, veteran, veterans
«Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.»
«Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully-trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor.»
«The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
edification, hoot, hooted, hooting, hoots, later on, nurse, pathologist, relax, trained, trained nurse, voluntarily
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