Browsing Quotes With Tag: honesty (12)
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You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your currently reality, whatever they might be.
Speaker: James StockdaleSource: Good to GreatPosted: 29 Sep 2013 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is more arrogant than honesty?
Speaker: Ursula K Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Westrum (1992) describes the Redstone missile development headed by Wernher Von Braun. After careful and painstaking preparation and much to the chagrin and puzzlement of everyone, an early test of the Redstone missile went out of control. It was surprising that one of the engineers reported that he may have accidentally caused a short circuit during the prelaunch testing. Further investigation revealed that indeed the engineer had caused the acci- dent. His openness and honesty in confessing his mistake in the end saved time and money. Costly retesting and expensive redesigns were unnecessary. Upon hearing that the engineer had voluntarily reported the mistake that had caused the out-of-control missile, Von Braun sent the man a bottle of cham- pagne. In many organizations, such mistakes are routinely hidden rather than admitted because punishment, not reward, is the typical consequence. It is in organizations that focus on uncovering failure for the sake of improvement that such open and honest behavior of subordinates is rewarded.
Speaker: Wernher Von BraunPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lies and gossip which harm reputations are scattered about by the four winds like the seeds of a ripe dandelion held aloft by a child. Neither the seeds nor the gossip can ever be gathered in. the degree and extent of the harm done by the gossip is inestimable.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People of principle who don’t live with integrity are miserable.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the first rules of medical inquiry is to ask the patient ‘what hurts?’
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can take a pound of paper or a handshake. If you do not have integrity, you have nothing in either case.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I asked my sister what I should do, and she said the best thing to do is be honest about my feelings. My psychiatrist said the same thing. And then I felt really sad because I thought maybe I was different from how Mary Elizabeth originally saw me, too. And maybe I was lying by not telling her that it was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back. But I was trying to be nice like Sam said I should. I don’t know where I went wrong.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“A pledge for a worthless man is a worthless pledge indeed.” Hephaestus
Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know the films she’s talking about, and they’re stupid. Those men don’t exist. Saying: I love you” is easy, a piece of piss, and more or less every man I know does it all the time. I’ve acted as though I haven’t been able to say it a couple of times, although I’m not sure why. Maybe because I wanted to lend the moment that sort of corny Doris Day romance, make it more memorable than it otherwise would have been. You know, you’re with someone, and you start so say something, and then you stop, and she goes “What?” and you go, “No, it’ll sound stupid,” and then she makes you spit it out, even though you’d been intending to say it all along, and she thinks it’s all the more valuable for being hard-won. Maybe she knew all the time that you were messing about, but she doesn’t mind, anyway. It’s like a quote: it’s the nearest any of us gets to being in the movies, those few days when you decide that you like somebody enough to tell her that you love her, and you don’t want to muck it up with a glob of dour, straightforward, no-nonsense sincerity.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Speaker: Bob DylanPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!