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Some of our favorite quotesBased out of the Chicagoland area, TM Consulting Group Inc. offers human resources services, workforce training and development, and business process consulting to local businesses in the Chicagoland area (including Wisconsin and Indiana) as well as companies throughout the U.S.
We've included a list of our favorite books and quotes. And don't forget to check out our Reality Check Assessment to see if The Operating Values System would be useful for your business. Our favorite quotes:“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” — Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne) “Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton “When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.” — Thomas Crum “Conflict can destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.” — Thomas Isgar "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden “When you're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.” — Anonymous “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” — Carl Jung “Don't wrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.” — Anonymous “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” — M. Scott Peck “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” — Abraham Lincoln “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” — Helen Keller “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” — John Lubbock “When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.” — African Proverb “Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'” — Johnny Carson “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.” — Abraham Lincoln “Be on a horse when you go in search of a better one.” — Chinese Proverb “Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.” — Native American Proverb “Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?” — R. Montgomery “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.” — Peter F. Drucker “What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.” — Anonymous “The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.” — Ann Landers “I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant.” — Unknown “It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.” — Yogi Berra “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner “The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.” — George Bernard Shaw “We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.” — Harold Nicolson “Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.” — William James “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” — Anonymous “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.” — Frank Crane “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” — George MacDonald “If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else.” — Yogi Berra “Our power is in our ability to decide.” — Buckminster Fuller “Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” — Margaret Thatcher |
