"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."

-- Joseph Brant

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“I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.”
“My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life.”
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”
“In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.”
“Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.”
“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
“There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.”
“Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.”

Source : "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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