“No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory—its irrepressible movement.”
Quotes by Mary Parker Follett
“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”
“We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.”
Mary Parker FollettMary Parker Follett was an influential American management consultant, social worker, and philosopher who made significant contributions to organizational theory and behavior. Often referred to as the...