Pastoral Resources

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

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.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

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.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.