“The term “leadership” connotes critical experience rather than routine practice.”
Philip Selznick (1919–2010) American sociologist
Source: Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation, 1957, p. 48
“Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.”
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 4, Section IV, p. 45
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Source: Real Presences (1989), II: The Broken Contract, Ch. 4 (p. 82).
“The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Introduction, p. 1
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Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"Kafka and His Precursors" ["Kafka y sus precursores"], as translated in Labyrinths (1964)
Variant translation: The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Context: In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 22
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) author and editor
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 80
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (12 March 1931), p. 31 http://books.google.com/books?id=1HZDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Freedom+is+not+worth+having+if+it+does+not+connote+freedom+to+err%22&pg=PA31#v=onepage <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Context: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Walton Hale Hamilton (1881–1958) Yale Law Professor
Hamilton, Walton H. (1932), " Institution http://www.cos.ufrj.br/~mvbsoares/ecoinst/artigos/Hamilton_Institution.pdf," in Edwin R. A. Seligman and Alvin Johnson (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. VIII, New York: Macmillan, pp. 84–89.