... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bos...s's moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one an...other are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business..., he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And if sun comes How shall we greet him?... Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest exe...cutive in the world. That is the Irish Question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion... where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women..., a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session ... the release of the guilty anxiety of the oppressor class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of the child's question as the start of a two-way conversation rather than a question-and-answer session. Sometimes it may b...e necessary to learn what children think about the subject and what misconceptions they may have before providing an answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »