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«Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.»
Author: Joseph Badaracco
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
business leader, Business Today, fluidity, listeners, masterful, model, send down, top down
«I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
behaviour, gentlemen, indecent, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, send down, sir, The Gentlemen
«Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: / And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.»
«For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: / So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.»
«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abstinence, asses, as yet, behaves, benevolence, bray, brayed, cloudless, feline, felines, fooleries, foolery, gratuitous, Heaven To, horrible, liturgy, persuading, rain down, ritually, send down, skies, urinate, urinating, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
compounded, compound interest, impudent, letters, right-down, sends, send back, send down, sit back, wastebasket
«Verily God hath one hundred loving kindnesses; one of which he hath sent down amongst man, quadrupeds, and every moving thing upon the face of the earth: by it they are kind to each other, and forgive one another; and by it the animals of the wilds a»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
God,
Kindness
| Keywords:
animals, Down to Earth, kindnesses, moving, one hundred, quadruped, quadrupeds, send down, sent, The Animals, The Face of, to each other, verily, wilds, wild man
«Men were one nation once, and God sent Prophets with good tidings, and sent down with them the Book in truth; but none did disagree therein, save those who had been given it after that manifest signs had come to them, through greed among themselves.»
«I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
Gorbachev, Mr Gorbachev, send down, signal, soviet, tearing, tearing down, urged
«Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
send down, sent, Thee, thither
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