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Quotable Quotes For Whatever Purpose...
Good Advice
The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost, poet
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
— Thomas Carlyle, historian
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill, statesman
Character is power.
— Booker T. Washington, educator
Few things move as quietly as the future.
— Bern Williams, author
Luck is the residue of design.
— Branch Rickey, pioneering baseball executive
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
— Gail Sheehy, author
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton, historian
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
— Charles Mingus, jazz musician and composer
One of the greatest discoveries you can make, one of the great surprises, it to find you can do what you were afraid you couldn't do.
— Henry Ford, auto executive
On Communication
The great accomplishments of man have come from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
— Thomas J. Watson, founder and first chairman, IBM Corporation
Less Is More
I leave out the parts that people skip.
— Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of mysteries and detective thrillers, on how he keeps the action in his books moving swiftly
On Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
— Warren Bennis, author, educator
On The Light Side I told him, "What is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?" He said, "Coach, I don't know and I don't care."
— Frank Layden, former Utah Jazz president and coach
Power corrupts. But absolute power is really neat.
— James Lehman, U.S. Navy Secretary, 1981-1987
Good pitching will always beat good hitting, and vice versa.
— Casey Stengel, baseball manager and sometime "philosopher"
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