Fernando Flores Quotes (19 Quotes)

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Your problems don't come because you don't know how to calculate entropies or to design plates. They come because you don't know about people.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

We live in an extraordinary time. Our thinking styles are severing us from our families, our religions, our ideologies, and nature. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, business, and education sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. At the same time, thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship, and community can exist. Let us design this world together.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

It is not necessary to destroy the community farm. Help us prevent the destruction of this 13-year project that has become an asset to South Central Los Angeles. We call upon you to reconsider the destruction of the 14-acre community farm in South Central Los Angeles. Surely an alternative site can be found for Mr. Ralph Horowitz somewhere else along the Alameda Corridor.

He had this ability to keep the students attentive. Most teens his age have a problem with making excuses, but he overcame that.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I hope that the new pope may cause its downfall the way Pope John Paul II did with communism -- in a way that speaks with love, understanding and non-violence.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.