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"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
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"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."
"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."
"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."
"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
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"Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others."
"For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role."
"I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences."
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."
"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."
"For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time."
"For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions."
"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
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