Pastoral Resources

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.