by TA Barlow | Feb 16, 2024 | Methodism, Tracking Citations
The Methodist insistence has not been so much upon opinion as upon life. Its distinguishing mark is not so much what men believe, as what they are, what they experience, how they act. The unique traditions of Methodism are, therefore, to be sought in patterns of...
by TA Barlow | Sep 21, 2023 | Quotes, Tracking Citations
…how can a team of committed managers with individual IQs above 120 have a collective IQ of 63? This quote comes from Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline (1990), page 9. It is in a subsection titled “Team Learning.”
by TA Barlow | Sep 15, 2023 | Tracking Citations
Correctly attributed to Thomas Merton: When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it. The entire quote is provided in a book – Follow the Ecstasy: The...
by TA Barlow | Sep 12, 2023 | Tracking Citations
George Erasmus, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (in what we now refer to as Canada) and a member of the Dene Nation, offers this deeply insightful quote: Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no...
by TA Barlow | Jul 1, 2023 | Tracking Citations
…that word “grace.” In an ungracious mouth is but profane. This first came across my radar as: The word “grace,” in an ungracious mouth, is profane… The quote comes from Richard II, Act 2, Scene 3. It’s a nice quote, but in...
by TA Barlow | Apr 8, 2023 | Tracking Citations
Credited to Henry David Thoreau, the full quote is: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. I’ve seen this attributed to a couple of his writings, including Civil Disobedience. The correct source for the quote is from his classic Walden, and it is found...
