The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.


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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER
The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV
Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no...
PETER DRUCKER
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ...
PETER KLINE
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ...
PETER DRUCKER
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER
I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
PETER DRUCKER
There are no creeds in mathematics.
PETER DRUCKER
Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
PETER DRUCKER
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
PETER DRUCKER
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
PETER DRUCKER
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER
INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER