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The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.
- Frank Herbert
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?
- Frank Herbert
Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?
- Frank Herbert
Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.
- Frank Herbert
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
- Frank Herbert
Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
- Frank Herbert
I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.
- Frank Herbert
If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
- Frank Herbert
The ultimate issue for the evolutionist is not bones, fossils, and strata--it's GOD. Rejection of God and our accountability to Him is foundational to evolutionist thinking. The rejection of God comes first, and THEN comes the interpretation of the date.
- Frank Peretti
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
- Ronald Reagan
If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.
- Abhijit Banerjee
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
- Frederick Douglass