Antony Jay quotes
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“The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.”
-- Antony JaySource : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins
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“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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“The only real training for leadership is leadership.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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“You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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“Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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“In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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“Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press
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“There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.”
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“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
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“In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.”
Source : Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.30
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