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Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.


Elizabeth Thornton

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THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal
THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
THORNTON WILDER Usually you take a penalty because you're a little bit tired or lazy and you're out of position. Ron...
SCOTT THORNTON It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline ...
DOUG THORNTON We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while.
JOE THORNTON He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that.
MARSHALL THORNTON The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t...
THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v...
THORNTON WILDER We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove...
THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo...
THORNTON WILDER Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd...
THORNTON WILDER One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with...
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