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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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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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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Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
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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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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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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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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All polishing is done by friction.
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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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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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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.
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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 unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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