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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.
Mary Parker Follett
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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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All polishing is done by friction.
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When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.
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I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
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And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.
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In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note that is the secret of the group.
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