De Beers Quotes
The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.
One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.
Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.
All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.
For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?
I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.
They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.
I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy.