I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.
Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.