Peter Drucker? Elsie Robinson? Warren Bennis? Stephen R. Covey? Glenn J. Shanahan? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: In the domain of business and entrepreneurship two contrasting statements yield a crucial insight: The most successful organizations require both efficiency and effectiveness. Another version highlights the following two ideas: These notions have been attributed to the famous …
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Quote Origin: Nobody Wants Constructive Criticism; It’s All We Can Do To Put Up with Constructive Praise
Mignon McLaughlin? Alan Sheldon? Stephen R. Covey? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Receiving criticism is painful even when it is described as constructive. The witty journalist Mignon McLaughlin made a germane comment on this theme. Would you please help me to find a citation. Reply from Quote Investigator: In 1960 the unnamed columnist of “Thoughts …
You Are Not a Human Being Having a Spiritual Experience. You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? Wayne W. Dyer? Stephen R. Covey? Georges Gurdjieff? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Antimetabole is a powerful rhetorical technique in which a phrase is repeated, but key elements are reordered. A popular statement about spirituality uses this strategy: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having …
Quote Origin: Between Stimulus and Response There Is a Space. In That Space Is Our Power To Choose Our Response
Viktor E. Frankl? Stephen R. Covey? Rollo May? Thomas Walton Galloway? Sheldon P. Stoff? B. F. Skinner? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: It is possible to control ones reactions and feelings even when one is faced with frightening hardships. The psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl has been credited with the following: Between stimulus and response there …
As You Climb the Ladder of Success, Be Sure It’s Leaning Against the Right Building
Stephen R. Covey? Thomas Merton? Allen Raine? Anne Adaliza Evans? Mae Maloo? H. Jackson Brown? Sarah Frances Brown? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The metaphorical notion of climbing a ladder of success was in use by writers in the nineteenth century. Here is an intriguing cautionary twist about faulty objectives: When you get to the top …