Thus, the hunter-gatherers of Tell Abu Hureyra were not wasting time and endangering themselves by collecting wild plants indiscriminately. Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants.

China’s leaders have identified their reliance on foreign chipmakers as a critical vulnerability.

Art is the generous act of making things better by doing something that might not work.

The greater God’s manifest glory, the greater and swifter the judgment of irreverence.

That vision of the Smith Team helped us through what was the greatest challenge our family had ever faced.

The automatic, natural contact with his own emotions and needs gives an individual strength and self-esteem.

The nonessentials is always reacting to crises rather than anticipating them, he is forced to apply quick-fix solutions: the equivalent to plugging his finger into the hole of a leaking dam and hoping the whole things doesn’t burst.

When you wisely use initiative through all 7 Levels of Initiative, you’ll find that your Circle of Influence will get larger and larger until it encompasses your entire job.

Satisfying closure. Dividing work in pieces and making sure that each piece can be completed in a visible way gives workers a chance to feel accomplished.

The fulfillment of Christ’s teaching consists in moving away from self toward God. It is obvious that there cannot be definite laws and rules for this fulfillment of the teaching.