Quotes About Ethos

He's not as bad as everyone makes out. He might buy venerable old companies and strip their assets, causing numerous layoffs and the odd corporate suicide or two, but that's business. Inside, he's a big teddy bear.

Goals. What does the persuader want to get out of the argument? Is she trying to change the audience's mood or mind, or does she want it to do something? Is she fixing blame, bringing a tribe together with values speech, or talking about a decision? Ethos, pathos, logos. Which appeal does she emphasize—character, emotion, or logic? Kairos. Is her timing right? Is she using the right medium?

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

The two main attributes of MindTree culture are high achievement orientation and high caring.

In a healthy knowledge-worker organization, people don't waste a lot of time anyway, since wasted time is an affront to them as much as it is to their management.

In a healthy knowledge-worker organization, people don't waste a lot of time anyway, since wasted time is an affront to them as much as it is to their management. They are more likely to be frustrated by wasted time than enjoy it.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

We live in an age of high performance, in which everyone is supposed to be constantly maximizing their potential, living their "best life." Social media has made everything from marriage proposals to this morning's breakfast into exquisitely choreographed, unsubtly competitive rituals. The ethos of work—"the long arm of the job," as one scholar put it—pervades our leisure, to the extent that we even have any.

The four classes are: 1) Good for you, good for other people, 2) Good for you, bad for other people 3) Bad for you, good for other people and 4) Bad for you, bad for other people.

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

An organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.

the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

To those children of the officers who are eradicated, your parent was not the individual you thought they were. As you get older,you will see the evidence that your parent was a tyrant who loss their ethos and instead followed the path of moral corruptness

There are no losers in the world of honorable men.

Cocteau thought of his own images. He really was as innovative as his admirers said. Their only mistake was to imagine that novelty was an ethos.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.