At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice – if not whether, then how, they may endure. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- The gods’ most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman’s breasts and cry-”even if he is at a convenient height for it. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there…. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins. – Lois McMaster Bujold
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- It was hell to be so tired, and still care. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn’t even know it. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- One foot in front of the other, wasn’t that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- He who plots revenge must dig two graves. – Lois McMaster Bujold
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- But when he’s cut, I bleed. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money. – Bharath Mamidoju
- Life is in different stages. Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life.Every stage of live must be fully-lived. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Leadership isn’t just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes. – Brian Staveley
- The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity – Gary York
- Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction. – Celso Cukierkorn
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- Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom. – Donna Lynn Hope
- In order to answer the question -œWhere am I going?- engage in self-development, self-education and development of will and firmness – Sunday Adelaja
- Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way. – Frank Ra Exstatica
- The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. – Friedrich Engels
- A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development. – JR Rim
- When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust. – Saji Ijiyemi
- Every stage of life has its own challenges. Be grateful for each stage. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It’s time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them! – Habeeb Akande
- A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Don’t let someone feel like they are following you and don’t let yourself feel like you are following someone. – Cyc Jouzy