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All polishing is done by friction.
Mary Parker Follett
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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
Businessperson
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Quincy
Massachusetts
Mary Parker
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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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Majority rule rests on numbers democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
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Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
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Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
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One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
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The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.
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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
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While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
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We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
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The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.
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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
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The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
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Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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