Quotes About Collins

they cannot learn the essential character traits that make them right for your organization.

The purpose of compensation is not to "motivate" the right behaviors from the wrong people, but to get and keep the right people in the first place.

Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins.

Lloyd George's main interest seemed to lie in meeting the amazing escapologist 'Mick' as he always referred to him. He took a mischievous delight in the rage of 'the Castle contingent' at their inability to lay hands on Collins when the Archbishop could apparently see him at will.

de Valera summoned a Cabinet meeting of the members available in Dublin and announced that he was calling for the resignations of the three absent members, Collins, Barton and Griffith. Cosgrave stood up to him, saying he ought to wait to see what the three had to say first.

His development plans were all set in a united Ireland context. The rivers Erne and Bann lie in the Six Counties but in 1922 Collins was writing about methods which would,'utilise the water-power of the Shannon, the Erne, the Bann and the Liffey.

It is easy to scoff at these ideas, or to point out the difficulties of implementing such schemes when actually running a normal peacetime Government. But Collins was a unique combination of the visionary and the practical.

he had detailed, well-thought-out proposals for a campaign of films, posters and press publicity to win the people to these ideas. Collins had political skills and powers of oratory of which the least that can be said is that he was better equipped than most men to make his dreams come true.

the State that emerged from the civil war frustrated Ireland's imagination. Collins himself might have been similarly frustrated, despite his mighty powers. The sheer strength of the forces massed against him in the North make it very hard to see how his efforts to achieve unity by force could have succeeded.

With Collins gone the major political personality left in the Free State was on the other side, de Valera.

Collins did not merely weigh up the reaction to the subsequent death from wounds of the unfortunate Smith; he analysed the reasons why the detective 'kept running', and from then on the Squad was armed not with .38 but .45 revolvers.

One inevitability of the Collins strategy was war, because as the police system crumbled, the British were forced to replace it with a military one.

Collins was willing to go to war, but as Griffith, de Valera and Figgis correctly divined, the public was not, and it would take several more months of repression and British policy blundering before the shooting of detectives and officials could be countenanced.

Collins wrote to the Freeman, protesting at the slur on de Valera. But the gesture had no effect on the Great Adamantine. For although, as one of the pro-Treaty members of the Committee, Joseph McGuinness, said in the Dail afterwards, 'the people on this side literally went on their knees to President de Valera to try and preserve the unity of the country

his attitude towards the Treaty was similarly influenced by his determination to show that he, not Collins, was the real Irish leader. Hence the President's refusal to accept the Treaty even under the terms urged upon him by Sean T. O'Kelly.

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!

Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. (Walter Hartwright's inner dialogue about Count Fosco)

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Very strange! he said to himself, vacantly. It's like a scene in a novel—it's like nothing in real life. He

the window, turned back again into the room

The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.