Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can … - Stanley Crawford

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If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

Stanley Crawford

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Luxury, Thinking, Time, Winter

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To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

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I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

Reading, Supposed, Thought, Times, Write, Writing

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. . . . What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

Bird, Fact, Moments, Play, Squeals, Thinking

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

Atmospheric, Darkness, Earth, Elements, Planting, Rough

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