"I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre."

-- Yuriy Tarnawsky

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“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?”

Source : Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business
“All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.”
“What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.”
“I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.”

Source : Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.114, Pan Macmillan
“I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.”
“Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.”
“Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.”
“My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.”

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