Realizing Quotes

[Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Canada's minister of state for public health, was confident about progress on the national consultation on health goals that is expected to report to the first ministers in November. Dr. Bennett said Canadians are ready for improvements and she is looking forward to Canada, in a few years,] realizing Tommy Douglas's original goal of medicare which is to keep Canadians well and not just patch them up when they're sick. ... When a physician says something, people listen. We need your help. - Carolyn Bennett

[Adding new software and more people to reduce the cost of collaboration is great -- as long as it doesn't create even more work. To really ease the work overload -- and, not coincidentally, make corporations more nimble -- it's also essential to identify and eliminate unnecessary interactions.] Sometimes people need to remind themselves that there is an off switch -- and use it... Solitude is the scarce resource in business lives -- having that time when you are disconnected and realizing that everything will go along fine without you. - Paul Saffo

. . . and realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. . . . Time and events allow for change on both sides. - Alice Childress

(We're planning) a healthy, open dialogue realizing that no one jumped to any conclusion and making sure that all voices are heard. - David McKay