Superiors Quotes - Page 26

• We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

  Horst Schulze

  Educational, Competition, Climate

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• Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

  Horst Schulze

  Real, Educational, Leader

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

  Hirohito

  Race, People, Legends

  Address denying his divinity, 1 Jan. 1946

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• The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.

  John Swett

  Teacher, Children, School

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• We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.

  John Steinbeck

  Courage, Hunting, Animal

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• The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Focus, Attention, Genius

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• Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Add, Spirit

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.232

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• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

  Marilyn French

  Equality, Men, Feels

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• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

  Edmund Burke

  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Animal, Reality, Men

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Men, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.68, Advaita Ashrama

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• My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!

  Robert Willner

  Cancer, Drug, Herbs

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• We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

  Andy Rooney

  Change, Attitude, Mistake

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• Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Funny, Dog, Fall

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

  Adolf Galland

  Thinking, Giving, Arms

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• It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

  Price Pritchett

  Moving, Ambition, Goal

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• Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

  John Daly

  Real, Gun, Iraq

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• The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

  Ashley Montagu

  Women, Evidence, Whole

  Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.91, Rowman Altamira

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• Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Communication, Heart, History

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• To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mad, Argument, Strive

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• We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Distinction, Clear

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• Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

  Nick Denton

  Want, Kind, Makers

  "Nick Denton’s ‘State of Gawker 2012’ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’" by Foster Kamer, observer.com. January 05, 2012.

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