Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, State of the Union Address (1975)
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. Dwelling in Him. Robesonia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
“What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11
Context: What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1853
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds
134
Source: Stray Birds (1916)
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Walden (1854)
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Context: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.<!--p.87