Pastoral Resources

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.