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Quotes About Suggestions

Make dumb suggestions.
~ Patrick Lencioni
a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And
~ Patrick Lencioni
You admit it was a bad idea as soon as you realize it. You laugh at yourself. You take their ribbing. And most important, you don't stop making suggestions. Most of your ideas won't be horrible. Even
~ Patrick Lencioni
The idea is that your clients are looking for good suggestions, and they don't mind sifting through some not-so-good ones as long as they're offered with good intentions and with no ego attached.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Naked service providers are so concerned about helping a client that they are willing to ask questions and make suggestions even if those questions and suggestions could turn out to be laughably wrong. They
~ Patrick Lencioni
right after the 2016 U.S. election was trashed by malevolent forces, Facebook invited me to their headquarters to consult about ways to use transparency to prevent their site from being hijacked again by meme-manipulators. I can tell you now that absolutely none of my suggestions were adopted, or even closely examined. I am not encouraged.
~ David Brin
fact." For example, right after the 2016 U.S. election was trashed by malevolent forces, Facebook invited me to their headquarters to consult about ways to use transparency to prevent their site from being hijacked again by meme-manipulators. I can tell you now that absolutely none of my suggestions were adopted, or even closely examined. I am not encouraged
~ David Brin
Ask people for suggestions on how to improve, and if they're going to reject you for being imperfect, let them do it and get it over with.
~ David D. Burns
As rumours grew of peace proposals and a message was sent to us from the Vatican through Berne I thought it right to send the following minute to the Foreign Secretary: 28.VI.40 I hope it will be made clear to the Nuncio that we do not desire to make any inquiries as to terms of peace with Hitler, and that all our agents are strictly forbidden to entertain any such suggestions.
~ Winston S. Churchill
In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
~ Moshe Katsav
If I was the perfect Netflix, what type of movies would I recommend for you and why?" "How do you feel you are different from the people at your current company?" "What views do you hold religiously, almost irrationally?" "How did you prepare for this interview?" "What subreddits, blogs, or online communities do you enjoy?" "What is something esoteric you do?
~ Tyler Cowen
Tienen expresiones más glaciales; los encuentros de miradas parecen peligrosos de la forma en que pueden ser peligrosos los encuentros de miradas en el metro. Las mujeres suelen llevar atuendos que te sugieren lo que puedes ver de ellas cuando no llevan atuendos
~ David Foster Wallace
this new delicacy, this suggestions of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any of the old accusations of daughterly neglect ever had.
~ Zadie Smith
You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.
~ D.J. MacHale
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
~ Jennifer Granholm
When it comes to the producers' song choices versus the judges' song choices, the producers just suggest stuff.
~ Guy Sebastian
There was a way to know if you had made headway. You knew you had made headway, when a doctor to whom you had made one or another suggestions, presented, a day later, the plan as his own.
~ Joan Didion
Instead she wants to know every detail of the menu I have planned for her party, relishing everything in advance. She is brimming with suggestions. Brandade trufée, vol-au-vents aux trois champignons , cooked in wine and cream with wild chanterelles as a garnish, grilled langoustines with arugula salad, five different types of chocolate cake, all her favorites, homemade chocolate ice cream...
~ Joanne Harris
Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.
~ Unknown
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
~ Joseph Addison
These suggestions are only preliminary. A statistician on the job will of course modify and revise them to suit his own inclinations and local conditions.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Employee involvement, employee participation, and quality of work life, these groups predictably disintegrate within a few months from frustration, finding themselves unwilling parties to a cruel hoax, unable to accomplish anything, for the simple reason that no one in management will take action on suggestions for improvement.
~ W. Edwards Deming