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If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Michael Porter
You
Same Thing
Unlikely
Rivals
Very
Trying
Same
Essentially
Then
Successful
Your
Thing
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
Michael Porter
You
Other
Consistent
Mutually
Direction
Fact
Absolutely
How
Continuity
Continuous
Improvement
In Fact
Strategic
Each
Thing
Things
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Michael Porter
You
Strategy
Must
Limits
Accomplish
Trying
Essence
Set
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
Michael Porter
Engineer
Think
Thinking
Broad
Way
Fuzzy
Some
Pretty
About
Always
How
Task
Get
Tasks
Done
Unfortunately
Funky
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith
Say
More
Martyrs
Truer
Than
Create
Creates
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Miguel de Unamuno
World
Finality
Way
Give
Only
Consciousness
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Miguel de Unamuno
He
Him
Does
Opposed
Skeptic
Mean
Doubts
Who
Found
Thinks
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
God
You
Yourself
Before
Affliction
Others
Caring
Only
Idea
Concern
How
Cure
May
Appear
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
Science
Doubt
Above
True
True Science
Ignorant
Teaches
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Faith
Justice
Hurt
People
Nation
Before
Pain
Cries
Relationships
Kindle
About
Lays
Crucible
Fires
He
Calling
His
American
Race
American People
Deep
Elemental
Petition
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
Morrie Schwartz
Will
Hundred
Alive
Ten
Ten Years
No-One
Years
Who
Now
Here
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz
Best
You
Wait
Live
Way
Recognize
Best Way
Only
Until
Deal
Deathbed
Loving
Your
Fully
Compassionate
Conscious
This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
Morrie Schwartz
You
Respect
Something
How
Offering
Get
Start
Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
Mother Angelica
God
Intelligence
Degree
Angel
Beauty
Own
Possessed
Himself
Masterpiece
His
Created
Each
Each One
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
Mother Angelica
Patience
Try
Be Patient
Own
Patient
Desperately
Everyone
My Own
Obvious
Forced
Am
Trying
Short-Lived
Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.
Mother Angelica
Hope
Time
Man
Disappointment
Frustration
Will
Think
Kindly
Retain
He
Fellow
Him
Fellow Man
Without
Least
Proven
Pray
Pray For
Improve
After
Even
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
Mother Angelica
Animals
Computers
Emotionally
Intellectually
Resemble
To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.
Mother Angelica
Life
Loneliness
Suffering
Frustration
Result
Purpose
He
Pagan
Lives
Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.
Mother Angelica
Time
Thoughts
Memories
Human Being
Past
Every
Enough
Our
Reliving
Havoc
Remembrance
Like
Occupy
Souls
Continually
His
Human
Being
Them
Creates
Incidents
Jesus
Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'
Mother Angelica
Time
Thoughts
People
Listening
Will
Some People
Feeling
Whatever
Spend
Seeing
Some
Emotional
Call
Accept
Felt
Hearing
Experienced
Cannot
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Norman Finkelstein
Lying
Pretend
Prophet
Like
Know
Limitations
Saint
Very
Want
Flaws
Conscious
If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.
Norman Finkelstein
Best
Win
Country
Year
Every
State
Insane
Would
Performance
Israel
Were
Theater
Theatrical
Based
Lunatic
Oscar
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
Parker Palmer
Truth
Respect
People
Decision
Critical
Worthy
Demands
Inward
Make
Oppressed
Contradict
Begin
Stop
Movements
Keep
Deeply
Inner
External
Consenting
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
Parker Palmer
Welcome
Value
Criticism
Critics
Invite
Democratic
Off
Movements
Literally
While
Even
Fascist
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
Parker Palmer
Truth
God
Truth Is
Arrogance
Political
Differences
Christian
Our
Says
Religious
Only
Opposed
Passionately
American
Special
Standing
Who
Play
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer
Life
Myself
Me
Risks
New Life
Find
Daunting
Take
Nobody
Demands
New
Knows
Exempt
Were
Nor
Expect
Expected
Did
Tasks
Anything
Depressed
Might
Required
Who
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