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Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the 'why' are usually astute, high-performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most. Don Yaeger

Pulse Benefit Philosophy Those Astute Directly Purpose Most Understand Tap Behind Organizations Companies Why

Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done. Don Yaeger

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The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him. Donald Stewart Cherry

Love Him Greatest Hockey Hockey Player Bobby Who Lived Ever Player

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. Doris Lilly

Walk Long Nothing Boss Having Long Story Like Make Short Story

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson

Peace Will Never Maintained Passivity Achieved Order Created

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. Dorothy Thompson

Strong Worship Eat Instinct Than Less Hardly

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? Dorothy Thompson

Home Men Preach Abroad Towards Inequality Advocate Nations Races

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. Dorothy Thompson

Faith Better Overcome Positively Fearlessly Only Idea Force Another Upheld

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? Dorothy Thompson

Needs Vote Women Own Lobby Take Had Over Obvious Sort Causes Years Up Organizations Forty Forty Years Washington Why

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. Doug Larson

You Goals Detours Establishing Interesting Them Deprive Right

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson

Impossible Will Add Boss Only Accomplishing Duties Regular Means Your

I'm very dogged and patient. Doug Stanton

Patient Dogged Very

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island. Doug Stanton

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Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people. Doug Stanton

Life Conflict People Writing Opportunities Dramatic About Superheroes Talk Provided Person Substantial Ordinary Ordinary People Really Moments

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced? Doug Stanton

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When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a cry and whirl of a world being remade. I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, accompanied by a desire to yell out that they will be rescued. Doug Stanton

World Dark Sadness Will Men Overwhelming Sense Visible Out Horizon Remade Struggling Feel Heads Look Cry Arms Accompanied Yell July Michigan Being Lake Whirl Rescued Each Desire Imagine

Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take forever to vanish from the sky, and when it does, it goes out like someone folding a white sheet in the dark. A flare on the horizon. Then a rustle: Goodnight. Doug Stanton

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Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it's infinitely more effective to work with a country's soldiers and citizens at eye level. Doug Stanton

I wanted to write 'In Harm's Way' from the young men's point of view of being in a raft, or hanging in a life vest with just their nose poking above the water. Doug Stanton

Life Water Men Young Way Above Point Point Of View Write Poking Vest Hanging Just Being Nose Wanted View Raft Harm

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