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" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

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" There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "

George Lucas

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" For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts. "

" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. "

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "

" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "

" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

Wisdom

Process

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

" Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong. "

" After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. "

" Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. "

" Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. "

" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "

" Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team. "

" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

" There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "

" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "