Michael Scott
Michael Scott
opportunity people opportunities-to-learn
if you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn -Nicholas Flamel
school middle-school middle
Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.
games play rules-of-the-game
Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
war dark thinking
They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.
strong triumph courageous
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
area blocks business central downtown jackson madison monroe roughly street surrounded tracks train water
The central business area or downtown is roughly 12 blocks in size. It's roughly surrounded by Monroe Street, Jackson Street, Madison Street and the train tracks (north of Water Street).
across common found ought police shift skills slight sort sound thousands
All of that, I think, ought to sound like common sense. It's pretty reasonable. But what we've found is that in the tens of thousands of police departments across the country, that's a slight sort of shift in thinking. Most police departments don't have all the skills to do that.
men would-be magician
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.
change guy may
What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.
law magic needs
But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.
heart doubt sound
When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true
Here words can kill - literally.