A Quote by Harriet Martineau

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau

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Harriet Martineau
English - Novelist
June 12, 1802 - June 27, 1876

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.

James K. Polk

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Victor Hugo

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

James K. Polk

Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they don't realize that making things happen, achieving operational excellence, moving the organization from uncertainty to clarity, from red ink to black, is what really creates hope for a better future. Therefore, great leadership always involves great ideas and real actions that reinforce a strong belief in the excellence of the decision makers and in the viability of the organization itself.

Judith M Bardwick

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.

Colin Jost

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

David Ogilvy

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

David Gauke

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.

Harold Wilson

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

Samuel Johnson

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Steve Jobs

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Humphry Davy

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

Robert Blaha

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

Denise Morrison

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