I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do - the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the consequences of misplaced focus and accountability in relationships.
Mary L. Trump's quote reflects on the significant negative impact that can arise from prioritizing the wrong people and ignoring accountability. It suggests that when individuals are not held responsible for their actions, it can lead to widespread damage and suffering for others, highlighting the importance of discernment and responsibility in our relationships and leadership.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about leadership roles in organizations to emphasize the need for accountability.
Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
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