Quotes About Agency

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro

Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

A human being is a deciding being.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.