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I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Quote by Scott Adams about heads, obstacles, principle, things, contentment, people

Don't ever be too hard on yourself-even if you have slipped and haven't really gotten on schedule, just take it easy, but slowly get yourself back into the pace, get yourself used to working out.

Quote by Carmen Electra about haven, contentment

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as...

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Quote by Laurent Fabius

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about power

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about intelligence, trap, thinking, death, mind, human imperfections, contentment

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light, then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about music, rocks, eyes, light

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains, we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more, and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Quote by Francis Parkman

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about knowledge, experience, power

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, word, brain, god, contentment, things, dream

Expectation I'm in an expectation Only the children are passing near it playing slowly with everything existing around them from buildings ready to collapse to the most pure form of some streets surrended to wind every day. They are...

Quote by Andrei Novac about expectation, children, clothes, sky, purity, day, life

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other...

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

Quote by Julian Patrick Barnes about olderness, eyes, opinion, old, contentment, people

Time is our only true enemy. Slowly, it robs us of the...

Time is our only true enemy. Slowly, it robs us of the one precious thing we can not bottle.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about time, enemies, things

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