3 December 2020 Marian Anderson Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
3 December 2020 Heraclitus The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
3 December 2020 Richard Nelson Bolles Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
3 December 2020 Tom Coburn The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
3 December 2020 Carl Sagan A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
3 December 2020 Scott Weiland Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It’s made everyone overly opinionated.
3 December 2020 Bryant McGill The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
3 December 2020 Thylias Moss Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can’t see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
3 December 2020 Ryan White I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
3 December 2020 Ron Chernow I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
3 December 2020 Kate Moss I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
3 December 2020 Roberto Benigni My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Branagh One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare’s characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
