Pastoral Resources

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Courage follows action.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

The idea of a language more simple than ours.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.