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Peter Drucker:
>Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
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Robert van Gulik:
If we ever succeeded in reaching the utmost of what we are longing for, there would be a sense of surfeit.
van Gulik, Robert, The Phantom of the Temple (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 131.
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Robert van Gulik:
Most tricks look easy when they are done well.
van Gulik, Robert, The Haunted Monastery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 167
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Robert B. Parker:
Home’s where you can go and they have to take you in.
Parker, Robert B., Promised Land (New York: Dell, 1986), p. 77
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Robert van Gulik in the voice of Judge Dee (if you are not familiar with the Judge Dee mysteries, well, you should be):
If we measure our knowledge not by what we know but by what we don’t, we are just ignorant fools, Hoong, all of us.
van Gulik, Robert, “the Two Beggars” in Judge Dee at Work (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 114
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Frank Lloyd Wright:
Aside:
Bennett Cerf told the story that Wright once had to testify in court. When the attorney asked, “What is your occupation,” Wright responded, “I am the world’s greatest living architect.”
Later, a friend asked Wright how he could bring himself to say that. Wright replied, “I had to. I was under oath.”